OVERSEA SETTLEMENT FOR SCOUTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21304, 25 March 1939, Page 10

OVERSEA SETTLEMENT FOR SCOUTS

FARM LEARNERS IN AUSTRALIA In the past three months 28 Boy Scouts have left England under farm learners schemes for Australia. Twentyfour of these have gone to New South Wales, three to Queensland and one to Western Australia. All the Scouts have with them letters of introduction to Scouts at the port of call and to Scout Headquarters at the destination. The oversea Headquarters have been advised of the sailing of the boys, which means that the Scout pioneers go forward With definite assurance that they will be met on arrival by friends who are Scouts to welcome them into the Dominion as settlers and brother Scouts. At the present time there are opportunities for boys between the ages of 15-19 as farm learners in New South Wales and Queensland, and there is no doubt that other schemes will be opening up shortly. A handbook dealing with Oversea Settlement for Scouts is being revised by the Boy Scouts Imperial Headquarters and will be ready for issue shortly. It is hoped that the attention of all Scoutmasters will be directed to the help the Migration Department at Imperial Headquarters can give to Scouts who desire settlement in another part of the Empire. The Migration Department was formed in 1924 for the special purpose of assisting Scouts with expert and disinterested advice upon all matters relating to settlement overseas. Over 5000 Scouts had been assisted to settle in this way up to 1928. Scouts have gone forward for land settlement in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Southern Rhodesia, most of whom have been successful.

Since 1928 migration was more or less at a standstill owing to the unfavourable conditions brought about by worldwide depression, but now that settlement is once again possible for lads as farm learners in Australia, there will, undoubtedly, be many Scouts who will turn their thoughts to a life in the open rather than remain in .“blindalley jobs” at home.

Valuable Mrs Jones: I wonder why they awarded Mrs Henpeck fi v e hundred pounds for the loss of her thumb. Mrs Brown: Perhaps it was the one she kept her husband under. Dangerous Bobby had been, spanked for the third time that week. Bobby: Dad, I really think you ought to see the doctor. These attacks of yours are getting too frequent. Thoughtless “The bailiffs will be coming tomorrow." “Just like a man! We can’t pay the rent, and here you go having guests in the house!” She’d Settle It Sandy was telling his friend Jock that he and his wife were undecided yet where they were going for their holidays. “My wife wants to go to Perth,” he said, “while I want to go to Aberdeen." “Oh, ye’ll like Perth a’richt!” smiled Jock. Didn’t Get the Job In the window of the electrical repair shop appeared the notice, "Bright Boy Wanted,” and it was not long before a lad marched tn. "I’ve come for the job," he announced. “Do you know anything about electrical apparatus?” asked the electrician. “Sure.” "H’m! Well, what’s an armature?” “A football player who doesn’t get paid,” was the brisk reply. Resentment An old lady kept a parrot which was always swearing. Every Sunday she kept a cover over the cage, removing it on Monday morning, thus preventing the parrot from swearing on the Sabbath. One Monday she saw her minister coming towards the house; so she again replaced the cover over the cage. As the reverend gentleman was about to step into the parlour, the parrot remarked:—“This has been a of a short week!” He Knew that Much Farmer Hayseed and Chips, the local carpenter, had decided to take a trip to the zoo together. But before they had been there long Hayseed was wishing that he had chosen other company. Chips knew altogether too much, and each new enclosure was the signal for a long lecture qn the nature and habits of the animals it contained. Hayseed, good-tempered fellow, suffered in silence for a long time, but at last he could bear no more. They stopped before a large cage of monkeys. Chips pointed solemnly. “Do you know what these are?" he asked. Hayseed considered. “I can’t rightly be sure.” he replied, "but judging from the sawdust on the floor, I think they must be carpenters!”

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: The smallest good deed is better that the grandest intention. — Dugnet.

FAREWELL TO CUBMASTER A gathering of Cubs and parents of the St. Peter’s Cub Pack spent a very enjoyable evening last Wednesday when a presentation from the Pack was made to the Akela, Miss L. Neilson, before her departure from Timaru. AU present wished her a happy future.