LEISURELY TOUR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18598, 8 January 1935, Page 7

LEISURELY TOUR

LORD BADEN-POWELL LEADER OP YOUTH ARRIVAL IN FEBRUARY (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A "warm welcome is being prepared in Auckland for the Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, and Lady Baden-Powell, who are expected to arrive by the Aorangi from Sydney on February 4. News from Australia indicates that the 77-year-old veteran leader is again enjoying excellent health, and although his pending visit to New Zealand will be mainly a holiday tour, with special attention* to fishing, he will also attend several Scout functions in, his .honor. Lord and Lady Baden-Powell .will spend several days'in Auckland before beginning a leisurely tour of the Dominion, including a visit to Taupo.

“His real old self,’’ remarked a Scout Commissioner to a group ot friends, after he had met the World Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, when he arrived with Lady JBaden-Powell at Melbourne the other day to attend the great jamboree at Fr&nkston. That was the opinion of all Scouts who saw their chief. It is not many months since he recovered from a serious illness, but his freshness and vitality are unimpaired in spite of his 77 years. His eyes twinkled from a bronzed face as he shook hands warmly with all who came to greet him. Broadcasting from the captain s cabin in the ship, Lord Baden-Powell said that he and his wife and family had seen the Scouts of almost every l£ast«rn race working in the same manner as their brothers in Europe and in other parts of the world. In 18 different countries, said Lord Baden-Powell, they had found Scouts and Giudes everywhere. They included almost every race in the East—Cingalese, Indians, Arabs, Tamils, Javanese, Malayans, Japanese, and innumerable others. They were all taking up scouting, and were fulfilling its objects as well as their brothers in the West. It was tremendously gratifying to see them, especially Scouts in Torres Strait, adopting the same ideas and principles, which were making them happy, healthy, helpful citizens. “Now we are going to the wonderful jamboree at Franks ton,’’ Lord BadenPowell concluded. “There will be a wonderful meeting of youth, future men of their different countries, not only looking at each other, but making friends. That friendship, and pleasant relationship, will he helpful in the future, not only in the cause of commerce, but more especially in the cause of goodwill and jpeace. That is what we are looking for in the world so that, in future, there will be a good leavening of this spirit in every nation. After a brief visit to Government House, Lord Baden-Powell, accompanied by his wife and daughters, went by car to his house on the edge of the jamboree camping ground. Along the route hundreds of holiday-makers formed groups and cheered him. Boy Scouts, who had been unable to go to the jamboree, had put on their uniform for the occasion, and stood at vantage points to get at least one look at their leader.