BOY SCOUTS
DOMINION COUNCIL THE ANNUAL MEETING [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Nov. 19. The annual meeting of the Dominion Council of Boy Scouts was held to-/.ay, Dr. Fenwick, Christchurch, presiding. Hi’ said the executive had been strengthened by the inclusion of Commissioners in the four largo Centres. The appointment of Metropolitan Commissioners was a step forward and it was his ambition that every (District Commissioner might extend his activities until he had twenty troops under his care and become a Aletropolitan Commissioner.
He referred to the impending visit of the drier Scout and Chief Guide. He said he could conceive no better way of training the young people of to-day to grow up into good men and women that that of the lessons taught in the Scout and Guide movements.
Captain J. R. Kirk, Gisborne, was elected chairman of the Council for 1930-31.
It was decided that the English medal for merit would be available and be awarded to all Scouts as provided in the English, policy, organisation and rules-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 428, 20 November 1930, Page 7
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