Scouting Movement Grows
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in P-NG
THE Boy Scout Movement in P-NG has, in the last few years, made remarkable increases in its membership. Native boys as well as European and Chinese are con tinually being enrolled, and this, with active leadership and wise management, resulted early this year in the Association attaining County status.
There are now 1,859 Scouts in the Territory—an increase of over 45 per cent, in the last 12 months. The number of groups throughout the Territory is 41, as against 27 in the previous year, and for the first time in its history the Movement has
two permanent buildings. They are the Territorial Scout Headquarters at Port Moresby and the Rover Den at Boroka (see PIM, September).
The HQ building was prefabricated in Australia and supplied at cost by the Queensland Pastoral Co. A small sail-boat was also given to the Rabaul Sea Scouts by the Chinese community. (See October
Pim).
At the October Synod of the Fiji Methodist Overseas Mission, it was announced that there are now 30,000 Fijian members of the church, with 146 ministers, 510 catechists, and 5,512 local preachers; Youth Fellowships have increased by 286 last year to a total of 9,819.