BOY SCOUTS AND E.P.S.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 111, 15 May 1942, Page 3

BOY SCOUTS AND E.P.S.

ORGANISER’S PROPOSAL The formation of three independent E.P.S. units—Boy Scouts. Schools Protection, and Child Welfare—was | suggested by the organiser, Mr. I. Manley, at a meeting last evening oil the Wanganui E.P.S. Executive Committee. The proposal, among others.; will be discussed at a special meeting! next week. All these bodies, said Mr. Manley ! applied for the oilicially recognised) E.P.S. armband. Two of them applied also for E.P.S. motor-car stickers.) Many women enrolled as members of I the E.P.S. assisted in the work of the' Child Welfare Section and it was pro-' posed fnat they be properly constituted as a unit of the E.P.S. Referring to the Schools’ Protection! Unit. Mr. Manley said that the first j duty of teachers was to shepherd chil-l dren to either a shelter or direct to' their homes. Once these duties were discharged these people were free to do other work. It was proposed that all teachers be seconded to other units, and that having fulfiled their obligations as teachers in an emergency, they should proceed to other duties for which they had been previously trained Mr. Manley added that he had been told that Boy Scouts who were injured or killed in an emergency would be covered by insurance. but after searching the regulations he could find no reference to such provision. “I am unable to find any trace of this section being covered, nor any member of the Boy Scouts’ Association forming part of the Emergency Precautions Services.” Mr. Manley said. “I propose that this organisation be legally constituted as an E.P.S. unit.”