THE SCOUT MOVEMENT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17023, 7 August 1929, Page 7

THE SCOUT MOVEMENT

MORE HELP REQUIRED APPEAL TO YOUNG MEN (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, Aug. 6. Lady Baden-Powell, interviewed at Arrow Park, said: “We are not getting all the young men we want for the Boy Scout movement. Youths with intellectual gifts arc over-fond of racing madly about in motor cars and on motor cycles. Yet they could help us in framing and building up the characters of boys who are less fortunate. “It is a curious fact that the sisters of these young men are with us wholeheartedly; in consequence there are 190,000 more Girl Guides than Boy Scouts in Britain. It is noteworthy that, the Girl Guides are not so numerous in foreign countries, though these are quickly coming to learn that a good man is necessarily the counterpart of a good woman.” The New Zealand, Australian, Canadian and Indian contingents of Boy Scouts were each presented with carved totem poles by the Chief Scout at a special ceremony at Arrow Park. Improved weather is making the camp conditions more cheerful.

Arrow Park, in which the great jamboree of Boy Scouts was held, is described by the Sydney Sun correspondent as having been converted by the heavy rains into a condition resembling the muddy fields of Flanders. An adjacent naval building was secured‘"for billeting the boys who -were swamped out of their tents.