Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thursday 21 September 1911, page 7


BOY SCOUTS'

MILITARY RECOGNITION SOUGHT.

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.

A deputation from the central executive of the Imperial Boy Scouts, Victorian section, waited on the Minister for Defence to-day, to ask that the scouts be allowed to perform military cadet training in the scout troops under official supervision.

Mr. Agar Wynne, M.P., In introducing the deputation, said that the scout bodies of New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania were in accordance with the proposals.

Senator Pearce, in reply, said that the matters had been before him on several occasions by correspondence from the different scout organisations and persons interested in the movement throughout the Commonwealth. It would, he thought, be unwise to commence again to bring in a system of voluntary or semi voluntary organisations, and he did not feel inclined to do it. He did not think that it was in the interests of the military organisations

of Australia, or of the boy scout, movement Itself? j