SCOUT NOTES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 314, 11 July 1930, Page 10

SCOUT NOTES

(By “Rover”). This Week's -Badge Motto Be prepared and don’t he scared By difficult work or play; To mend a leg or fry “n egg It*s all in the work of the day. Some Things a Scout Must Do. Put self last. Take little annoyances out ot tne W When any good happens to others, reioice with them. Vhen others arc suffering, drop a word of symp-.by. Tel l of your own faults rather than those of others. . L’;\r a place for everything and everything in paee. Hide pour own troubles, but watch to help others out of theirs. Take bold of the knob and shut every door behind you without slamming it. Never interrupt any conversation, hut wait patiently for your turn to

Sl Loo'k for beautv in everything and take a cheerful view of every event.

Rovers. _ . . There is at present a proposal afoot to form a Rover Patrol. Th ; s patrol would be attached to a local troop and would be open to all voung men of seventeen and upwards, particularly old Scouts. Would all interested please communicate with. A. Dale. Box 133?

Awards. The Dominion Bulletin for May gives the information that Mr H. ’• • Foster is accepted as a commissioner for Wellington. Commissioner W. I’. Meek is awarded the distinction of the Hon. Silver Wolf by Imperial Headquarters, and Commissioner Cooksey, the Medal of Merit. New Zealand Long Service Medals are awarded to S. M. Bianchi, Wanganui, A.S.M., H. E. Kendrick, New Plymouth, Rover-leader E. Zambra. S.M.'w. Jones, Wellington, and D.S.M. F. L. S. MaeKenzie receives five years’ bar for medal. Commissioner for Training Silver Wolf Sandford’s term of service to the New Zealand movement has been extended to eover the period until the next annual meeting of the Hoy Scouts Association.

Mud. American souvenir hunters are bu~y at the old Middlesex town of Uxbridge, where one of them has already carried off a box made from part of an oak beam from the parish church. This seems a sensible souvenir when com pared with some of the articles Americans collect and take back with them to gloat over in the United States. .Last vear one woman took back a cigar box containing a piece of authentic mud from the Boy Scouts 1 Jamboree at Arrowe Park! Broadcasting. Ou a recent Saturday evening Station 2ZR, Wanganui, broadcast a talk by our Commissioner on “Boy Scouts." They have received a report of this transmission from a listener in Arcoona (Central Australia). We were all very interested in this broadcast and hope the Commissioner will be on the air again very soon.

Knox Pack We have to report that we have had a very busv month. Many cf our Cubg are working hard for their second stars, while others have nearly completed the first star tests. First aid and signalling have taken up most of our time, and we have also spent two afternoons tracking. The roll now stands at 20, but as parades are held on Saturday afternoons, and some of the Cubs play football for the midgets, we do not always have that number. Wc are looking forward to our birthday tea thi s month, when most of us will receive badges. Military? So far from being a military or semi-military movement, as is sometimes falsely stated, the Boy Scouts are creating an atmosphere in which war will become less and less possible. Chief’s Visit An itinerary for the visit of the Chief Scout to New Zealand in 1931 has gone forward from the Dominion executive for final approval. It is interesting to note that outside of the four centres, arrangements are being made to have the Big Chief visit us on this coast. This is, no doubt, due to the stand taken by our own Commissioner and will no doubt be greatly appreciated. Scouts in Poland.

One hundred Boy Scouts from Kent, England, have sailed for Poland, taking with them a beautiful silk bag for the Boy Scouts of the country they are visiting. Poland, with its area of 146,821 square miles, once extended from the shores of the Baltic to the fringe of the Black Sea. Then it attracted the attention of greedy neighbours, and its territories were by Prussia, Russia, and Austria. The peace which followed the great war restored Poland to the map as a republic. The Scouts are to visit Warsaw, the capital, a city of stately palaces and churches, on the left bank of the Vistula. The Lazienki Park, which has a fine open-air theatre, is actually situated in part of the old bed of the river. The home of the university is the Casimir Palace, but Poland values learning so much that she boasts several other State universities and colleges, in addition to over 800 technical schools. “Look up and not down. Look forward and not back. Look out and not in, and Lend a helping hand. ’ ’ —Hale.