Lieutenant Cossgrove served in the Boer War with Baden-Powell. He was a headmaster at Tuahiwi, which is just outside Christchurch, and he brought the Scout movement to New Zealand. He had four daughters, and the youngest was Muriel. They were living, of course, in a country which had already won the vote for women 15 years earlier, and Muriel asked for a girls' equivalent to Scouts. So it was 1908, a year before girls in Britain made the same request, that Cossgrove organised the Peace Scouts for girls, and I did smile when I saw that the junior branch was called the fairy scouts. Names have been changed. 