資料：1934年3月23日《Hong Kong Daily Press》第11頁
THE BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION
Comprehensive Report Of The Commissioner
The Annual General Meeting of the Hong Kong Branch of the Boy Scouts Association will be held in the Sandilands Hut (Girl Guides Association Headquarters), at 5.15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 4, 1934. His Excellency the Governor, Chief Scout for Hong Kong, has kindly promised to take the chair, and before the opening of the meeting, His Excellency will present the Prince of Wales Banner to the 10th Hong Kong Troop.
Commissioner’s Report
The Commissioner’s Report for 1933 is as follows:-
The past year has proved in many ways one of the most satisfactory that we have had for some time. There has been greater all round activity, in general the efficiency and keenness have been more marked, with a better realisation of our aims and objects, our numbers have increased, and above all more of our Scout Officers have adopted the only methods by which a Group can properly be conducted. The causes of this are mainly the elementary Training Courses through which prospective officers are required to pass before they are granted Warrants, and the valuable assistance rendered by the China Fleet Troop of Deep Sea Scouts who have acted as Instructors and Examiners with real and efficiency.
The Deep Sea Scouts ran a series of classes in Pioneering, that is bridge building and so forth, Mr. Fitz Henry of the Government Fire Brigade held or arranged for another series in Fire Drill and Theory after which some 80 scouts passed an examination with excellent marks. Dr. Y.S.Wan organised First Aid Examinations, assisted by Drs. Kirk, Karanjia and others, each boy being put through a really strenuous test by at least two of the four examiners sitting on each occasion, while Dr. Wan also helped in arranging the Examinations for Interpreter Badge, assisted by Mr. Thomas Tam.
The usual two Rallies for the Prince of Wales Banner Competition were held in the Spring and Autumn, the one at the Diocesan Boys School by the kind permission of the Headmaster, Mr. C.B.R.Sargent, who himself is Scoutmaster of the School Group, and the other at Saiwan. The 10th H.K. (St. Paul’s College) and 1st Kowloon (St. Andrew’s Church) troops were first and second in each alternately, coming out with equal points. The final possession of the Banner depended on the result of the Competition Camp which was held in October at Saiwan. St. Paul’s Troop won this competition, St. Andrew’s being second.
The Annual Swimming Sports were held as usual in October in the V.R.C. Bath. The Bird Challenge Cup was won by St. Andrew’s Troop (1st Kowloon) who beat the Sea Scouts by half a point. The Akela Cup for Wolf Cubs taking part in the Swimming Sports was also won by the same Group.
On September 30 His Excellency the Governor and Lady Peel gave the Girl Guides, Scouts and Cubs a delightful party in the grounds of Mountain Lodge.
Increase in Strength
We have mentioned an increase in strength. The census In September 1932 showed a total excluding officers, etc. of 514, though there was a slight increase by the end of the year when we took another local census to get accurate figures for the Government Grant. The September Census for 1933 gave us a total of 510, but the January 1934 numbering produced 550. This is largely accounted for by the fact that the September Census which is taken for Imperial Headquarters finds us at the end of the summer holidays with troops not yet recruiting or only just getting going again after the usual recess while in January Groups are in full swing and with their numbers on the increase. If we include officers our total numbers approximate 600, apart from examiners and instructors, who number another 50 or so.
While certain Groups fell into abeyance during the year the loss sustained by this was more than counterbalanced by the founding of new Groups. With two exceptions the failures were due to lack of Scoutmasters, one leaving the Colony, one giving up owing to lack of time, and one owing to other interests. The new Groups are widely spread over Colony, Taipo, Cheung Chau, Stanley, Mong Kok, Kowloon Tong, Victoria. Most of them are connected with schools and are being run by trained men under favourable auspices.
Saiwan Training Camp has become more than ever the hub of Scout Activity in the Colony. Saturday after Saturday finds a busy crowd there at work. We have already mentioned the Competition Camp. Many Troops have also spent days under canvas there and the Naval Deep Sea Scouts had a most successful time in the same way at Christmas by kind permission of the Commander in Chief.
Saiwan is not the only place where Scouts camp or practise Scoutcraft, for the 5th Kowloon Troop have a hut in the Kowloon Foothills the 1st Kowloon have a favourite campsite in frequent use somewhere along the Taipo Road, the Diocesan Boys School Troop have an excellent winter camping ground in the Shatin Pass area; near the Shatin Police Station. Scouts on hike tests make a practice of bivouacking for the night, the 10th H.K. and the Sea Scouts in particular, and this latter Group also runs a winter camp in the same district, in addition to their annual summer cruise. Taipo is also a favourite spot. Stanley used to be so, but is now getting too populated for the purpose. Various troops have gone further afield to Macao and Canton, while one party took trip to Swatow.
The Rover Section is still a problem, but this seems to be also the case at Home. Rover Leaders are hard to get, for if any officers need very special qualifications, they do, and it is most exacting work since the task is that of suggesting the right way rather than leading, of advising rather than planning, and yet with the full responsibility of a Leader.
The Cubs.
The Wolf Cubs are definitely alive, but we still need to have better organisation so as to unite the various Packs into some sort of little association.
It must be remembered that Cub Training is essentially different from that of Scouts, though working towards the same end. Cubs are not Junior Scouts, though the youngest section of the Scout Movement, and if any Cubmaster in error attempts to run his Pack on Scout Troop lines, when his Cubs go up into the Scouts they will lose the sense of something new and progressive, and the feeling that having left the small boys they are being admitted into something really big.
The Sea Scouts are up to full strength and working under very favourable conditions. Their move into excellent headquarters owing to the generosity of the Committee of the Sailors’ Home and Missions to Seamen has helped them on considerably, also the practical sympathy and interest shewn by the Naval Authorities. They were unable to take part in the Banner Competition right through the year owing largely to their having to move their Headquarters at the time of the first Rally. In addition to occasional camps ashore they had an adventurous week’s cruise in August in the Western Waters of the Colony during which they had ample opportunity to prove themselves to be not merely “fair weather sailors.”
We have already mentioned the important part played by the Naval Deep Sea Scouts in the Association’s work. It was a great pleasure to the Commissioner to be able to present on behalf of the Chief Scout the Silver Acorn Medal for good services to the Movement to Payment Lt. Commander K.S.Fleming Green, R.N., China Fleet Troop Scoutmaster. This ceremony took place on Christmas morning in the D.S.S. Camp at Saiwan. We are very fortunate in having the Fleet Scoutmaster with us as he has already done important work for the Deep Sea Scouts in the Navy elsewhere. Merchant Service conditions make it practically impossible for more than a very few D.S. Ses. to be in one ship, so that it is a real pleasure to such keen scouts to be able to plunge at once into a scouty atmosphere.
Our relations with the Girl Guides continue as friendly as ever. We put Saiwan at their disposal and they the Sandilands Hut at ours for meetings and Rallies. There is frequent interchange of representatives at our respective meetings and we combine in sending cablegrams of good wishes to the Chief Scout and Chief Guide whenever occasion demands it.
We are glad to be able to report that there are clear indications that Scouting in China is gradually taking a turn in the right direction which will eventually bring it into line with the Scout policy held by all the 40 and more countries represented on the International Scout Bureau. We are grateful to His Majesty’s Consul General in Canton, Mr. H.Phillips C.M.G., for giving welcome assistance both to the Canton Scouts and to us in our efforts at establishing contact.
Greetings and visits are exchanged regularly with our Scout friends in Macao, though they are still small in numbers. We sincerely thank them and them and the Portuguese Officials for many courtesies and kind assistance.
翻譯：
童子軍總會
總監詳盡報告
香港童子軍總會周年大會，將於1934年4月4日(星期三)下午5時15分，在新德倫小屋(Sandilands Hut)(女童軍總會總部)舉行。香港童軍總領袖總督閣下，已應邀出席大會。另在大會舉行前，閣下亦會頒授威爾斯太子錦標予香港第10旅。
總監報告
1933年總監報告如下：
過去的一年在多方面都可以說是令人十分滿意的一年。多個活動，讓整體效率及積極程度有所提升，並向著我們的目的與目標邁進，成員人數亦有所提升，全賴各旅團領袖指導有方。而成功之背後，主要是領袖獲頒發委任書前必須通過基礎訓練課程，再加上隸屬駐華艦隊的深海童軍主動協助出任教練員及審核員，為領袖訓練提供了真實及高效率的幫助。
深海童軍舉辦了一系列先鋒工程訓練課程，包括橋樑搭建等。由政府消防隊的菲亨利先生(Mr. Fitz Henry)安排的消防演練及理論課程，有80名童軍通過考試並取得優良成績。由尹醫生(Dr. Y.S.Wan)及其助手柯克醫生(Dr. Kirk)、賈倫札醫生(Dr. Karanjia)等人的協助下舉行的急救考試，各童軍需接受艱難的測試，並在四名考官中通過最少兩人的測試。尹醫生亦協助安排了翻譯章(Interpreter Badge)考試，湯馬先生(Mr. Thomas Tam)從旁協助。
威爾斯太子錦標賽的兩場比賽分別於春季及秋季舉行，首場比賽得到拔萃男書院校長舒展先生(Mr. C.B.R.Sargent)的善意批准使用場地(他亦是該校旅團的旅長(Scoutmaster))，而第二場比賽則於柴灣(Saiwan)舉行。香港第10旅(聖保羅書院)及九龍第1旅(聖安德烈堂)取得總成績冠亞軍，兩旅在第一場比試均取得相同分數。決勝局則於10月在柴灣營地舉行，最終聖保羅旅奪標，聖安德烈旅得第二。
周年水運會於10月在域多利遊樂會游泳場(V.R.C.Bath)舉行，飛鳥挑戰盃(Bird Challenge Cup)由聖安德烈旅(九龍第1旅)奪得，他們比海童軍高出0.5分，而小狼的阿基拿盃(Akela Cup)亦由同旅獲得。
9月30日，總督閣下及貝璐夫人(Lady Peel)邀請女童軍、童軍及小狼前往山頂別墅，參與了一場愉快的聚會。
實力增強
較早前提及的成員人數上升，1932年9月的統計紀錄，扣除領袖後的成員人數為514人，至年底為申請政府補貼所進行的另一次統計調查則顯示人數略有提升。1933年9月的統計數字為510人，1934年1月則為550人。人數浮動之主要原因，在於9月份進行英國總部要求的統計時，多個旅團剛結束暑假，並未開始或剛準備進行招募所致，至1月份時各旅團已進入最佳狀態，所以人數有所提升。如把領袖人數包括在內，成員總數大約600人，如再包括審核員及教練員，則再增加50人。
雖然有部份旅團暫停集會，新註冊旅團卻足以抵銷流失，唯有兩單因缺乏領袖造成的真正流失，一單為領袖離開本地，一單為領袖忙於其他事務而放棄。至於新成立旅團遍佈全港，包括大埔、長洲、赤柱、旺角、九龍塘、維多利亞城，大部份旅團皆為學校營運，其領袖亦已接受訓練。
柴灣營地日益成為本地童軍運動的核心，每個週六都滿佈人群。於營地舉行的比賽於較早前已有提及。多個隊伍度過了愉快的露營時光，而在總司令的批准下，深海童軍亦成功舉行了聖誕露營。
今天的柴灣已不是舉行童軍露營或練習童軍技能的唯一選擇，九龍第5旅於九龍山腳有一小屋，九龍第1旅經常於大埔道附近露營，拔萃男書院旅於沙田坳接近沙田警署找到一個理想的冬日營地，童軍們進行遠足考驗時會於該處露營，香港第10旅及海童軍亦於當地舉行冬日露營，甚至是夏日遊船活動。大埔也成為了熱門地點。赤柱以前也很熱門，但現今已有太多人到該處露營了。部份隊伍已開始走得更遠，前往澳門及廣州(Canton)，有一隊伍甚至到了汕頭(Swatow)。
羅浮童軍支部依舊運作困難，相同情況亦在英國發生。羅浮童軍領袖召募非常困難，其主要原因是需要特定資格，而且工作需嚴謹，因其工作方式不是命令而是引導，不是參與計劃而是提供建議，兼需負上所有責任。
小狼
小狼非常活躍，但我們需要作出行動來更好地組織這些鬆散的小狼旅。
必須注意小狼訓練與童軍訓練絕不相同，而成效卻為一致。小狼不是初級童軍，而是童軍運動最年幼的支部，如有小狼旅長(Cubmaster)錯誤地將童軍支部訓練套用在小狼身上，當小狼晉升童軍時，就會失去新奇及晉升的體驗，失去這種感覺時會讓他們失去追求更好事物的動力。
海童軍現時實力強盛，並且得到不同協助，在海員俱樂部委員會(Committee of the Sailors’ Home and Missions to Seamen)的協助下他們得以遷入不錯的旅部，而海軍亦對他們長期關注及協助。可惜的是他們因正值旅部搬遷期，未能參與錦標賽的第一場比賽。除了陸上露營外，他們亦於8月份在本地西部水域進行了遊船活動，以行動證明他們不是「溫室長大的水手」(fair weather sailors)。
較早前我們已提及隸屬海軍的深海童軍對本地童軍的莫大貢獻。總監很榮幸可以代表總領袖向駐華艦隊旅長(Scoutmaster)菲林明中校 RN皇家海軍 (Lt. Commander K.S.Fleming Green)頒授銀橡實獎章(Silver Acorn Medal)以表揚其傑出服務，勳章於聖誕節早上在柴灣的深海童軍露營期間頒授。我們十分榮幸海軍旅長(Scoutmaster)除專注於深海童軍工作外，亦抽空與我們共事。現時的商貿環境讓各深海童軍難以處於同一艘船隻上，他們於如此環境仍可維持童軍生活實屬難得。
我們與女童軍的關係繼續良好，她們會借用我們的柴灣營地，而我們亦會借用她們的新德倫小屋(Sandilands Hut)舉行活動及比賽。我們經常在聯席會議上作出頻繁的交流，並會聯名向童軍總領袖及女童軍會長發送祝賀電報。
我們很高興地報告，中國童子軍已漸漸走回正軌，並開始與40多個國家參與的童軍國際局(International Scout Bureau)所訂的童軍政策走向一致。我們感謝英國駐廣州總領事菲利浦先生(Mr. H.Phillips) CMG聖米迦勒及聖佐治同袍勳章 為兩地童軍的交流提供鼎力協助。
我們與澳門的童軍有進行定期的交流及訪問，雖然他們人數不多，我們亦衷心感謝他們以及葡萄牙官員的熱情招待與友善協助。