SCOUT NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 146, 22 June 1937, Page 10

SCOUT NEWS

Thought for the week: —“Satan finds mischief still for idle hands to do.” Glasgow Eagle Group reports that on Tuesday the 29th. instant, a concert will be held in St. Andrews Hall. An excellent programme has been arranged and extra seating has been provided to accommodate the large attendance expected. It would be as well to make application early for tickets for admission, adults Is, children 6d. Headquarters reports that a visit was made to Marton by the Metropolitan Commissioner, A. F. A. Woollams, who was accompanied by his staff officers. Details of the visit will be reported in future notes. St. Mary’s Scout Troop report that a concert held in St. Josephs’ Hall on Wednesday, June 16, was well attended by the troop and parents and friends and an excellent programme was arranged by Matthew West A.S.M. and presented by the Scouts of the troop. An excellent supper was provided by the troop committee without charge, and which was much enjoyed. The items presented were a number of short plays, elocutionary items and songs and a great many encores were called for. Badges are being applied for the l lads who have just passed the second j class tests and recently Scouts ■ Greener, Mulholland, Nev/bolt and West passed their pathfinder and ambulance tens. The cubmasters of the Glasgow Eagles pack met on Tuesday, June 8, at the Rover Den. Jungle dances were discussed, and some variations submitted. The cubs and members of the committee with lady Cubmaster Randal entertained their akela, Miss Davidson, who was spending the weekend in Wanganui at a happy afternoon tea in St. Andrews’ Presbyterian Hall on Saturday, June 19. Among those present were Mesdames Curtis, Paul, Harris, Willetts, Pope, and District Cubmaster Gaze. The Glasgow Eagle group committee in an effort to assist the pack and troop has arrranged for a grand concert to be held in St. Andrews Hall on Tuesday, June 29, at 7.30 p.m. The 1 conductor of the Wanganui mouth I organ band has kindly consented to | arrange the programme with his band I

and other items which should prove a fine attraction. Keen competition is taking place between the cubs and scouts to see who can dispose of the most tickets. Price of admission will be, Cubs, Scouts and children under 14 years, 6d; adults, Is; and it is hoped that other troops, packs and parents will give their hearty support.

Be useful. Winter with its shorter and less sunny days, with a good deal of damp to contend with, is a problem for mum to get her washing dry and will probably cause her a good deal of worry. All you Scouts who have not a clothes airer, in your home, can prove yourselves “stout fellahs” and make one. This is a very easy “gadget” to make and one of the most useful in the home. The materials required are two lengths of 2in. by lin. dressed timber, two double and two single screw pulleys, four screw eyes, two lengths of clothes line, four blocks of wood 6 by 2 by iiin., two brass cup hooks, and a few 2in. nails. This will make two airing rails. To make the clothes airer is a very simple matter. Take two of the wooden blocks, and, laying them down flat, drill a hole through the centre of each with brace and bit so that you can screw a pulley in each. By getting up on a ladder or a pair of steps, you can nail one block on the wall of tiie kitchen or wherever you are erecting the airer, up against the ceiling, and do likewise with another block on the opposite wall. Now with the brace and bit drill through the holes in the blocks and into the walls. Take a double pulley and screw through one block and screw a single pulley through the other block on tne opposite wall. Next, get one of the 2 by lin. rails cut to a suitable length to reach to the two pulleys and take the two top edges off with a plane. On the top face and about iiin. in from each end drill a hole, being careful not to split the rail. Screw a screw-eye in at each hole. Now get a length of clothes line and j take one end through the double pulley, across the ceiling and down through the single pulley and knot it through the screw-eye at the far end of the rail. Take the other end of the clothes line through the other grooved wheel of the double pulley and down to be knotted to the screweye at the near end of the rail. You can now arrange the lines so that the rail will pqll up and down horizontally. When the rail is up at the top and you have pulled on the double line at one end, tie an overhand knot in the double line, and screw a brass cup hook in the wall upside down so that you can hitch the I overhand knot to it. When you pay I out the double line and lower the raii, I tie another knot and hitch to the cup hook when the rail is at a convenient I height for mother to hang clothes on ■ etc., over the rail. The second rail jis erected in exactly the same way | about 15 inches away from the first one. The Metropolitan secretary will be happy to provide you with pulleys I and without cost if you care to apply.