BOY SCOUTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2769, 26 March 1910, Page 7

BOY SCOUTS.

Y.M.C.A. TROOP. Five scouts were sworn in on the last instruction night. A Committee has been elected for the Troop with Corporal Bradford as Secretary. Nearly all the Troop now have uniforms, and look remarkably well. Last Saturday a paper chase was held, the trail being laid by four liares from the trig station at Kaiti. Scouts Stevenson and Crafts were the, best hares "and succeeded in. evading their numerous pursuers. but good work was also - dqne by Scout Porter, a new scout'from Scotland, and he iwas'found cleverly hidden. The scouts game of deer .stalking was afterwards played and swimming and despatch running concluded the afternoon. METHODIST TROOPThe Troop has been doing good work in ambulance instruction, and the last instruction night was devoted to drill and fancy marching under Mr I. McLoughlin. To-dav the whole Troon will spend a day in the country. NO. 3. ST. ANDREW’S 1 TROOP. Saturday afternoon was spent at the Club Rooms, a lot of work requiring to be done to make them comfortable. A nane of glass was put in one of the windows, and then the lower sashes of both windows and casement door were stippled in white. The effect is very good and the rooms have a more homely appearance for evening meetings. A door is being hung in the archway between the two rooms in order that exercises carried out in the drill room may not interfere with what is being done in the other room, which will lie 'principally used for reading and study. Here, too, is the open fireplace., where 'already some satisfactory cooking has been turned out. The Troop was the happy recipient 'this week of a picture nicely framed from an anonymous donor. It is entitled “A Battle in the Desert’’ and is ■a stirring scene in Arab life. The Scouts have a pretty good idea who it came from, how,ever, and hope some day to be able to show their appreciation' of the kind gift.