SCOUT COMPETITIONS

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1931, Page 10

SCOUT COMPETITIONS

PROGRAMME FOR ELTHAM EVENT The following events are on the programme of the South Taranaki Scout and Cub competitions to be held at Eltham this year;— Scouts’ (Ollerenshaw Cup): Patrol marching without staves (by four boys and patrol leader); compass (by patrol and leader, event to be arranged by scoutmasters); Scout haka (by patrols of five boys and patrol leader); signalling (four boys); ambulance competition (general ambulance work. Tiianirular’ bandages to be provided by patrol and points to count for correctness in handling, ease, time, stretcher and correctness of drill; stretcher to be improvised); physical drill (as laid down In “Scouting “for Boys”); message relay; artificial respiration (Schaeffer method as in “Scouting for Boys”). Cubs (Legion of Frontiersmen totem pole): Forming circles and howl; marching under sixers; walking plank; skipping; knot-tying and explanation first-aid as for first-aid badge for cubs; alphabet, semaphore; eight points of compass. . t. u n Both trophies are at present held ny Manaia.