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ing to impose too rigid a control on the training of individual units. The allocation of transport, placed at our disposal for the whole week, was particularly helpful, and we should like to see this become normal practice. We may say in conclusion that if future camps are as smoothly run as this and the camp last year at Gandale, we shall be very well satisfied.
SCOUTING THE GROUP All connected with the Group will learn with regret that Mr. J. S. Cooper has found it necessary to resign his warrant as Cubmaster, on his appointment as Master i/c. Junior School. Mr. Cooper has been C.M. since 1937, and his enthusiasm has been such that in addition to his work in running the Pack, he has found time to assist at Troop meetings, hikes and camps, and finally to initiate and run a second Pack. For several years, too, he has organised the York & District Association Cub Sports and has served on the Local Association Executive Committee as a Cubber representative. Both the Group and the Association will be much the poorer by the loss of his very practical and energetic support.
SENIOR SCOUT TROOP Full meetings were never possible during the Summer Term because of impending examinations and C.C.F. commitments, but training meetings continued regularly. In the early part of the term a Field Day was held on Skipwith Common and it was attended by those Senior Scouts not in the C.C.F. The programme consisted of training and practice in stalking, followed by a wide game, which was really too wide for the small numbers involved. However, an enjoyable time was had by all, even though the two sides found great difficulty in finding each other in the dense vegetation. The great heat and numerous midges made the swim in one of the ponds a very welcome end to the Field Day. During the term preparations for the impending trek camp took up much of our time. The trike carts were planned from suggestions in the "Scouter", and we made arrangements for the frames to be welded in York. The carts measure 20 ins. x 30 ins. and each runs on one solid rubber wheel. They are controlled by pairs of long, adjustable shafts and are towed by ropes attached to rings at the front. Because they are single-wheeled the carts can be taken over rough ground and they can be dismantled and portaged where necessary. The frames were not ready until less than a week before camp, and we had a frantic rush to make and fit the wooden linings and
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