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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 24

the “Boy Scouts Branch.” The Boy Scout organization shall not have any control over any unit or corps forming part of the Boy Scout branch of the Junior Cadets.

Age of scouts.

105. Boys may join Scout units at the age of ten years, and may continue as such until they are sixteen years of age.

OFFICERS.

Staff officers may be appointed.

106. Staff officers for the Boy Scouts Branch may be appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the Commandant of Cadets.

Officers in charge of special training, known as “scoutmasters.”

107. Officers in charge of the training of Boy Scouts shall be known as “scoutmasters.” Scoutmasters may be Junior Cadet officers selected by the Commandant of Cadets, or they may be persons who, being officers of the Boy Scout organization, and having offered their services, may be approved by the Commandant of Cadets.

Scoutmasters to continue in office.

108. It shall be permissible for a scoutmaster appointed at the time of the coming into force of these regulations to remain a member of the Boy Scout organization and carry on the instruction of the boys independently of his duties as an officer attached to the Junior Cadets.

Exemptions for certain training.

109. Where a scoutmaster is liable to compulsory service under the Act his work as Instructor of Boy Scouts, if approved by the Commandant of Cadets, may be accepted as such part of his military service as the Council of Defence may decide.

Co-operation between the two branches to be aimed at.

110. It shall be the aim of officers in the Cadet Branch to co-operate as far as possible with the officers of the Boy Scout Branch in their district, with the object of securing for the boys as effective a training as possible in the subjects in the text-book “Scouting for Boys.”

TRAINING OF BOY SCOUTS.

Special training for Boy Scout Branch.

111. Scout members of the Boy Scout Branch shall receive special training in the subjects and on the lines described in the text-book. Such training may be given by the officers of the Boy Scout Branch or by staff officers and instructors of the Cadet Branch. Scouts shall, in addition to such special training, undergo the same amount of military training in the Cadet Branch as is prescribed for that branch, except units at small schools which may be specially exempted from military training.

Examiners to be appointed.

112. The Commandant of Cadets shall appoint examining officers, who may be officers of the Boy Scout organization. An examining officer may be appointed to examine in one or more branches of the work, or he may examine in all subjects if so qualified.

Classification.

113. Boy Scouts shall be classified, by means of examinations conducted by the examining officers, into First-class Scouts, Second-class Scouts, and Scouts. The scope of the examination shall be as prescribed in “Scouting for Boys,” latest edition, and the successful applicants shall be thereby entitled to wear certain distinctive badges as described in the text-book. The examination for First-class Scouts and Second-class Scouts shall be voluntary. A boy, if he so wishes, may present himself for further examination for badges of merit as described in the text-book.

Organization.

114. Boy Scouts shall be organized into patrols, troops, and battalions, with the establishments laid down for a detachment, company, and battalion respectively of the Cadet Branch.

Boy Scouts subject to rules and regulations of Cadet Branch, when in camp or on parade.

115. When in camps of training and on all parades all rules and regulations which govern Cadets in the Cadet Branch shall in a like degree be applicable to Boy Scouts. Boy Scouts must make themselves acquainted with these rules and regulations.

To be billeted together in camp.

116. In camps of training all Scouts shall, with the approval of the Commandant of Cadets, be billeted together under their own scoutmasters and instructors.

Boy Scouts to be paraded together.

117. When several troops of Boy Scouts shall be parading together, they shall be under the command of an O.C. Scouts, who shall be duly appointed by the Commandant of Cadets: Provided that Scouts who belong to a unit in the Cadet Branch shall parade with the Cadet unit if present, unless otherwise ordered by the Commandant of Cadets.

Uniform to be approved by Commandant of Cadets.

118. (i.) The uniform of the Boy Scouts shall be approved by the Commandant of Cadets. Those Scouts at present in possession of uniforms shall continue to wear them at special Scout parades and training until they are worn out. When Cadets are also scouts, and the Cadets and Scout branches, or portions of them, are parading or training together, the Scouts shall wear their Cadet uniforms with scout badges.

(ii.) On all other occasions they shall, if they are in possession of them, wear their Scouts uniforms.

Regulations of Cadet Branch to apply.

119. (i.) The regulations of the Cadet Branch relating to uniforms shall apply equally to the Boy Scout Branch: provided that uniforms shall not be supplied to Boy Scouts until they have passed a test examination as under:—

(a.) Know the Scouts law and signs, and salute;

(b.) Know the composition of the Union Jack, and the right way to fly it;

(c.) Tie any four of the following knots—Reef, sheet bend, clove hitch, bowline, middleman’s, fisherman’s, sheepshank;

(d.) Have an elementary knowledge of the Morse or semaphore signalling alphabet.

(e.) Know the sixteen principal points of the compass;

(f.) Have completed their Cadet training for the year.

Examinations.

(ii.) The examinations shall be conducted by examiners appointed by the Commandant of Cadets.

GENERAL.

120. These regulations are to be followed in any case where they conflict with any Cadet Order, circular, or other instruction issued prior to the commencement of these regulations.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 18th day of March, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
For Minister of Education.

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.