Scouting in Western Samoa
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From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Nov. 30.
I Boy Scouts Association
of Western Samoa has recently been formed, and is affiliated o the New Zealand Boy Scouts Lssociation.
Mr. W. H. Wiggle, of Apia, has een appointed District Commis ioner.
The new organisation has been armed as a result of the recent isit to Samoa of Mr. Dahl, travel ng Commissioner from Imperial cout Headquarters in London, There are at present four Scout ■roops in Western Samoa: the nglican Chaplaincy Troop, the larist Brothers’ Troop, the Mor ion Scout Trooo and the Avele chool Scout Troop.
Mr. L. Mollering has been ap ointed secretary of the new Asse rtion.
Mr. Ross Henry, of the Common ealth Bank, Dee Why (NSW), will ave for Rabaul on transfer at the id of January. He is the son of [r. and Mrs. Jim Henry, of Bris me, who were well-known resi sts of Toowoomba. Qld., for many jars, and there, during the Pacific ar, met many Territorians. They lan a trip to New Guinea in 1952.
The first meeting of the Bougain ville Advisory Council, New Guinea, took place on November 21, and was attended by the DC (Mr. Malcolm Wright) and Father A. Lebel (representing Bishop Wade), Rev.
A. H, Voyce, and Messrs, Jack Ellis, Paul Mason, Fred Archer, Don Colley, N. Sandford.