More Info →Scout Group "The Early Days"

Description: A group of three scoutmasters and 23 scouts. The first scout troop was established in Palmerston North in late 1908. The Manawatū Evening Standard reported: "the boys meet every Friday night at the Mounted Rifles' orderly room. There the twenty boys comprising the corps are exercised in Morse and semaphore signalling, camp work, elementary infantry military exercises [...] and also recognised scout work." (26 June 1909). "Photo presented by Mr R. H. Whalley - first S.M. in P.N." This refers to Reginald Herbert Whalley (1861-1940).