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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12657, 10 January 1912, Page 9

Opotiki, - for many years an outpost 'of British civilisation, manned by the Armed Constabulary, has now a kinematograph show each night. Tauranga, which vied to> be a fashionable centre for balls and parties m the old ToKooti fighting days, is about to follow suit with a permanent picture show. After the march through the Urewera Country, it is related that Sir George (then Colonel) Whitmore and his officers were invited to a ball m Tauranga, but the only costumes they could raise were the shawls (puickered "m kilt fashion) which they had worn while chasing Te Kooti. They were permitted to enter the ballroom without dress suits on that occasion. Sir R. Baden-Powell may be interested to know that tho latest thing m boy scouts is a corps known as "the Wild Tigers," organised — but on compulsory lines — by his Majesty the King of Siam m view of the coming Coronation at Bangkok. Their "uniform" consists of black blouses and knickerbockers, bright yellow, ties,, and cowboy hats with yellow underbrims. But No. 2 company liave a white feather m their hats, the symbolic significance whereof has not been lost upon the humorists oft the little British colony m the Siamese' capital. The chief interest for "8.-P/' would be that the Siamese monarch evidently intends his "Wild Tigers'_ to cut a dash at the Coronation festivities. He drills them at Phrapatom, m person and most assiduously. It is, at all events, a good thing to know that the Boy Scout movement, m some form or other, has extended to the Lnnd of the Yellow Robe.