New Zealand’s First Boy Scout Patrol – 1908
In 1908, as part of a sudden worldwide movement, Kaiapoi was the first township in New Zealand to form a ‘Boy Scout Patrol’. The Scouts are now New Zealand’s largest youth organisation catering for both sexes, from the ages of 1 to 26 years old. Founded by English soldier, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (B.P. for …
