100 Years of Scouting in New Zealand ![]() ![]() ![]() & now not just for boys 2010 was the 100th anniversary of the Sea Scout Branch of Scouting New Zealand Started in England one year earlier by Warrington Baden-Powell, Lord Robert Baden-Powell's older brother, with an activity on board the Training Ship the Mercury from 7th - 21st August 1909. It was, if you like, the Sea Scout equivalent of Brownsea Island. Source http://www.seascouts.org.nz/2009.htm |