Long Live The Scouts.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 62, 14 March 1931, Page 8

Long Live The Scouts.

To ths Editor. Dear Sir, —In reply to Ex-Sergeant Major’s letter in your paper, allow me a lijttle space to point out a few of the benefits to be derived from being a Boy Scout. Scouting teaches the lads manliness and how to carry it out. One learns to respect old age and to be prepared to lend a helping hand to all in distress, where otherwise they would perhaps not think of it. I am speaking from experience, and what I learnt often stands me in good stead in my ordinary occupation. I learned to cook a meal, to bandage a wound or set a broken limb, to tie knots, splice rope, build bridges and rafts and numerous other useful things. As for Cadets and Territorials, they are young men and boys who are compelled to don a uniform and spend a couple of hours forming fours and marching, which most of them absolutely detest. Therefore, I say, long live the Scout movement and also the Girl Guides.—l am, etc., EX-SCOUT.