資料：1938年12月17日《Hongkong Daily Press》第1頁、第8頁
No Appeal For Financial Support This Year
Boy Scouts’ Association Meeting
PRESENTATION OF WOOD BADGES
At the annual general meeting of the Hongkong Branch of the Boy Scouts’ Association held at St. John’s Cathedral Hall yesterday, His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, Chief Hongkong Scout, presided, and the Vice President of the Hongkong Branch, the Hon. Mr. T.N.Chau, was in the Chair.
With His Excellency and the Hon. Mr. Chau on the platform were the Rev. N.V.Halward, Colony Commissioner, Mr. C.Champkin, Mr. F.G.Maunder, Mrs. D.Booker, Acting Hon. Secretary, and Messrs. Lo Koon-Hang and Lo Koon-kan, Joint Hon. Treasurers.
The Hon. Mr. Chau, in his opening address, reviewed the activities of the Association throughout the past year, and announced the intention of the Association this year not to make an appeal for financial support.
Mr. C.Champkin, Deputy Commissioner of the Association, speaking next, voiced his support of the Hon. Mr. Chau’s announcement. Mr. Champkin said, in part, “I am glad that Mr. Chau is not asking you for money. I have always refused to look upon the Boy Scouts as a charitable institution. The principles of Scouting teach us to help those who are worse off than we are. Of course, we need a little money, but we would not be good Scouts if we were not confirmed optimists, and I believe that when that need becomes urgent the public will respond as readily and generously as they have always done when we have been hard up.
“If the Scouts made any appeal now it would not be for money, but for wider opportunities of service in alleviating as much as they are able the grievous distress that is almost at our doors.”
H.E.’S SPEECH
His Excellency said:-
I should like to begin my few remarks this afternoon by congratulating the Hongkong Branch of the Boy Scouts Association on reaching their Jubilee Year. I, and I am sure all other sympathisers with the Association, appreciate the action of the Council in holding back from any appeal for funds at this special time. I do so all the more as I have myself recently sponsored an appeal for funds for the very purpose which is the motive of your abstention, but I hope that when the present clouds have rolled away your self sacrifice of today will be rewarded deservedly by the generous minded of Hongkong.
I have also to congratulate the Branch warmly on the continued progress which is the principal feature of the Report for 1938. It says much for the keenness of the Branch that in such difficult times they have been able to enlarge their numbers.
The report also contains evidence of several acts of public spirit on the part of Scouts during the year which it reviews, and in this connection I would like to tell of the pleasure which I felt when on my second visit to the refugee camps I found Boy Scouts already at work helping the helpless and generally fulfilling their promise. It was a great encouragement to me as Patron and Chief Scout of Hongkong to witness with my own eyes the immediate response by Hongkong Scouts as soon as an emergency shewed itself. The people whom you were helping were perhaps unable to thank you for that work, but I know that you Scouts do not work for the reward of thanks.
Speaking with Mr. Halward just now I learned from him of the promising results which have followed from the appointment of Chinese District Commissioners; this, as you know, was a recent innovation and I am extremely happy to learn that it has proved so successful. I congratulate the two District Commissioners very heartily on the way is which they have taken up and carried out their duties.
It only remains for me to assure you that I take real interest in your work and that I trust very sincerely that next year I shall read again a report as good as that which we have adopted today. I wish the Branch all good luck in the current year and in years to come.
The Colony Commissioner, the Rev. N.V.Halward, spoke of the many good reports of the work of the Hongkong Boy Scouts that he had received during his sojourn in Canton. He announced the presentation of Wood Badges to four Scouters in recognition of the especial interest they had shown in their work.
His Excellency made the presentations of these four Wood Badges to Mr. Quah Cheow-cheang, D.C. for Hongkong, Mr. Chan Fook-hong, D.C. for Kowloon, Mr. William C.Low, D.S.M. for Hongkong, and Mr. J.J.Ferguson, Scout Master of the 7th Hongkong Troop.
COUNCIL ELECTED
The meeting concluded with the election of the Council and of the Executive Committee of the Council for the year 1938-39.
Elected to the Council were:
The Rev. N.V.Halward, E.Cock, Hon. Mr. T.N.Chau, D.A.Pockson, (Hon. Secretary), Mrs. D.Booker, (Acting Hon. Secretary), Lo Koon-hang, Lo Koon-kan. (Joint Hon. Treasurers.); Lt. Col. H.B.L.Dowbiggin, Hon. Mr. N.L.Smith, Tang Shiu-kin, Commodore E.B.C.Dicken, the Rev. Cyril Brown, Dr. G.I.Shaw, Major C.M.Manners, Mr. S.W.T’so, D.J.Sloss, Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Hongkong, Li Jow-son, Wing Comdr. A.H.S.Steele Perkins, G.F.Goodban, C.G.Sollis, Lt. Col. H.B.Rose, His Honour Sir Atholl MacGregor, M.P.Talati, H.S.Mok, W.N.Thomas Tam, Col. N.M.S.Irwin, F.G.Maunder, the Rev. J.R.Higgs, Hon. Sir Robert Kotewall, Lt. Col. H.L.Murrow, Hon. Sir Shouson Chow, A.J.Lane, H.V.Wilkinson, Hon. Mr. M.K.Lo, C.G.Perdue, the Very Rev. the Dean., Rt. Rev. Bishop Valtorta, Loo Mang-hoon, and G.S.P.Heywood, Rev. Fr. N.Maestrini and Wm.C.Low (Representing Hongkong District), and all Commissioners.
Elected to the Executive Committee of the Council, 1938-9, were:-
Commodore E.B.C.Dicken, Col. N.M.S.Irwin, H.S.Mok, Tang Shiu-kin, F.G.Maunder, H.V.Wilkinson, Hon. Mr. M.K.Lo, C.G.Perdue, and all Commissioners.
翻譯：
本年度不再呼籲財政支持
童子軍總會大會
頒發木章
香港童子軍總會昨日在聖約翰座堂舉行了周年大會，香港童軍總領袖總督羅富國爵士(Sir Geoffry Northcote)出席了會議，大會由總會副會長尊敬的周埈年先生(Mr. T.N.Chau)主持。
除了總督閣下及尊敬的周先生外，其他出席人士包括香港總監侯利華牧師(Rev. N.V.Halward)、詹堅先生(Mr. C.Champkin)、文達先生(Mr. F.G.Maunder)、署理義務秘書布克夫人(Mrs. D.Booker)、聯名義務司庫盧冠恆先生(Mr. Lo Koon-Hang)及盧冠勤先生(Mr. Lo Koon-kan)。
尊敬的周先生發表開場致詞，當中講述了總會過去一年之活動，並發表總會於本年度將不再呼籲財政支持。
副總監詹堅先生隨後發言，表示支持尊敬的周先生之宣言，詹堅先生表示(節錄)：「我很高興周先生不再請求各位捐款，因我一直認為童子軍不是慈善團體，童軍運動一直主張幫助比我們更有需要的人。當然，我們亦需要少許金錢，而沒有樂觀主義的人士亦不配稱為童軍，所以我認為當金錢成為急切所需時，相信公眾亦會像我們一樣從容慷慨地作出回應。」
「就算童軍進行呼籲，亦一定不是為了金錢，而是為了更大規模的服務機會，以援助鄰近本地地區的傷痛苦難。」
閣下致詞
閣下表示：
我首先要在這個下午恭賀香港童子軍總會銀禧誌慶。我本人，以及相信一眾關心本會之人士，都為會務委員會不再呼籲公眾捐款表示支持。我相信你們的行動是為回應近日由我發起的籌款活動，我希望當日後籠罩着這裡的密雲散去時，心胸廣闊之香港各界人士亦將會對各位的自我犧牲作出回應。
在此亦熱誠祝賀總會的持續進步，其進展部份佔去了1938年報告的大部份內容。在如此艱難時期，竟錄得人數的增長，可見童軍活動之積極。報告中亦包括了過去一年童軍進行的多項社會服務記錄，令我回想起當我第二次到訪難民營時，看見童子軍們正在協助難民，實踐着他們的承諾。作為香港童軍贊助人及總領袖，親身目睹香港童軍於危難中不畏艱辛，我感到十分鼓舞。我相信那些受到幫助的人未必能向你們道謝，但我亦相信童軍工作是不求回報的。
與侯利華先生的對話中，得知委任華人作為區總監的成效十分美滿；如同各位所知，這是一項創新的嘗試，而我亦很高興結果十分成功。在此衷心祝願兩位區總監能繼續履行他們的職務。
在此強調我十分關注各位的表現，我亦真誠地相信，來年的報告將與今天的報告同樣美滿。祝願總會來年事事順利。
香港總監侯利華牧師表示他在廣州時亦收到了多份香港童子軍的優秀表現報告。隨後他宣佈了4名領袖考獲木章(Wood Badge)，為他們在童軍工作表現的引證。
閣下將木章頒予香港區總監柯昭璋先生(Mr. Quah Cheow-cheang)、九龍區總監陳福康先生(Mr. Chan Fook-hong)、香港區童軍區長盧威廉先生(Mr. William C.Low)、香港第7旅旅長(Scoutmaster)富嘉新先生(Mr. J.J.Ferguson)。
選任委員
大會最後選出了1938-39年會務委員及執行委員會委員。
獲選會務委員如下：
侯利華牧師、谷克(E.Cock)、尊敬的周埈年先生、帕克森(D.A.Pockson)(義務秘書)、布克夫人(署理義務秘書)、盧冠恆及盧冠勤(聯名義務司庫)、杜碧健中校(Lt. Col. H.B.L.Dowbiggin)、尊敬的史美先生(Mr. N.L.Smith)、鄧肇堅(Tang Shiu-kin)、狄根准將(Commodore E.B.C.Dicken)、布朗牧師(Rev. Cyril Brown)、忌連梳醫生(Dr. G.I.Shaw)、文那斯少校(Major C.M.Manners)、曹善允先生(Mr. S.W.T’so)、史樂詩(D.J.Sloss)、香港會督(Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Hongkong)、李佐臣(Li Jow-son)、史柏堅中校(Wing Comdr. A.H.S.Steele Perkins)、葛賓(G.F.Goodban)、疏利士(C.G.Sollis)、羅斯中校(Lt. Col. H.B.Rose)、尊敬的麥基利哥爵士(Sir Atholl MacGregor)、戴拉地(M.P.Talati)、莫慶淞(H.S.Mok)、譚雅士(W.N.Thomas Tam)、伊溫上校(Col. N.M.S.Irwin)、文達(F.G.Maunder)、希格斯牧師(Rev. J.R.Higgs)、尊敬的羅旭龢爵士(Sir Robert Kotewall)、苗爾露中校(Lt. Col. H.L.Murrow)、尊敬的周壽臣爵士(Sir Shouson Chow)、李吾(A.J.Lane)、衛健信(H.V.Wilkinson)、尊敬的羅文錦先生(Mr. M.K.Lo)、巴調(C.G.Perdue)、尊敬的恩理覺主教(Rt. Rev. Bishop Valtorta)、盧孟暄(Loo Mang-hoon)、希活(G.S.P.Heywood)、師人傑神父(Rev. Fr. N.Maestrini)、盧威廉(香港區代表)，及各區總監。
1938-9年度執行委員如下：
狄根准將、伊溫上校、莫慶淞、鄧肇堅、文達、衛健信、尊敬的羅文錦先生、巴調，及各區總監。