RECENT CAMPS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12670, 18 June 1919, Page 8

RECENT CAMPS.

MORAL TONE DISCUSSED. The criticism 'of the Council of Churches which was directed against the moral tone of the recent secondary school camp at Trontham has caused a good deal of coiummu; in i,he‘. city. The head master of one of the secondary schools which were represented at the camp was asked yesterday if he had heard anything to hear 'out the allegations that the moral tone of the camp wag bad- He replied to the contrary, He remarked that the camp was entirely different from the ordinary training enrap, inasmuch ns it was only n. fortnight's training for secondary school boys, and not lor youths who had left school- He expressed the opinion that if a camp was for secondary school boys it should Lie kept strictly for such boys, as they had the honour of their school to live up to. and wore inspired by a seiife of esprit do corps, (hr the question whether a four month.-' Territorial camp was a good thing be declined to express an opinion. One of tho senior boys who was attic camp said that there had been nothing to which exception could be taken. There had been some bad language. but the other boys had sat upon it. Hie instructors were men to be respected. Some of the boys had weekend leave, and made their 'own arrangements as to where they stayed in "Wellington. but- tho ( hridrlmreh hoys aUinvs returned to camp by Saturday night. A nether boy from a different school, wr:o saw tin? whole of tho ti\e fortnight iy courses of training, -aid . that (he Christchurch buys wore the very best in camp, A young Territorial who was uol. at the recent camp, but v.ho attended concentration camps two rears ago. said that part, of the trouble in camp ! wav (bar, the officers and instructor's always impressed it. on buys that when tbc.v left the Senior Cadets to join the Territorials at the a.irc of eighteen thewore men, and soim-i of the boys tried to live up to ibis exhortation by swearing loudly. The Territorials from Rome districts bad. been very rough. I Tho’ wad m leaf her, woe! sad bn. : All airmen risks w a-,e As flying high or flying. !ov They flit their biplanes to innl fr-; Their banes and throats protection ;->r-i Alien plnnir.r at abnormal s;e-d. Protection which they nil assure By taking Wood;' Great Peppermint 111 :,