BOY SCOUTS’ COUNCIL.
VALUE OF THE WORK. GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S TRIBUTE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The Dominion Boy Scouts' Council was opened by tho Governor-General, Dominion Chief Scout. lie referred to tho growth of the movement in the Dominion. The membership is now 12,404, a net increase of 588 for the year. He wel-. routed Lite increase in the number of sea scouts, which was a desirable deI \eiopment in a sea-girt country, whose economic existence depended on the command of Ihe setts and the uninterrupted interchange of seaborne merchandise. The scout movement is I,ring put by the economic adversity to the supreme lest of its efficiency as an outstanding factor in the advance of cixilisalion. It was 11 is Excellency's earnest hope and coulldcnl belief that il would issue with enhanced prestige and even wider acknowledgement of its national
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18797, 19 November 1932, Page 7
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139BOY SCOUTS’ COUNCIL. Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18797, 19 November 1932, Page 7
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