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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 162, 11 July 1934, Page 20

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(By MICHAEL.) Melbourne Jamboree. Nominations, together with the first instalment of 10/ per head, are now being received by.M.H.Q., who advise that all who wish to be present must attend to these details at once. In many instances where committees are subsidising scouts, or even. paying all expenses, the selection of the scout who is to travel has hot yet been made. This need cause no concern, but it is necessary to make reservation by forwarding the first payment of 10/ per head. From present indications it appears that about 00 to 70 scouts will be leaving from the Auckland, port. St. Alban's Scouts. The St. Albans' scout committee, assisted by the newly-formed * Hover crew, have been very active recently. On Saturday, June 30, a successful jumble sale, organised by Mrs. Fleming, was held in St. Thomas' Jfall, and on Friday last a "bring and buy," coupled with a "pound night," was held in St. Alban's Church hall, which was attended by Commissioner Service and the newlyappointed commissioner, the Rev. O. E. Morcton. After welcoming the commissioner and visitors, the chairman extended to the Rev.' Morcton a very cordial greeting on behalf of the St. Albans' rovers, scouts, cubs and committee, and assured him that he could always rely on their loyal support and co-operation Both Commissioner Service and the Rev. Moreton suitably responded. During the evening a concert, arranged by Mr. Ogilvie, was held, in which items were contributed by Mr. and Mrs. Oldroyd (pianoforte duet), Mr.- Bcecham (Scotch comedian), Mr. O'Neill (solos), Mr. Woolford (humorous recitations) and Captain H. Raby. Mr. Oklroyd proved a very capable accompanist. Badges were also distributed to Scouts A. Smith, G. Clark, N. Clark, D. Paul and H. Hansen. An exhibition of bandaging was given by Scouts Clark and Hansen. Supper was served by the ladies' committee after the concert. * • • • Auckland Seeonee Pack. On Wednesday evening last a good muster of cubmasters answered the call of Akcla Leader J. R. Middleton when ho summoned the Auckland Seeonee Pack to council for the first time this year. The evening marked the departure from the more conventional type of winter training course, such as those

conducted here for the past two years. Previously cubbers have received firstclass instruction at the hands of H.Q. staff, upon whose shoulders fell the entire responsibility of preparing and presenting the monthly programmes. "If Seeonee is to live," said the Akela leader, addressing the gathering, "the leadership must come from within your own ranks." Calculated to give cubniasters a more definite part to play in the preparation of the programme, and consequently cover in the course the things they most want, the new scheme of training divides each evening into two main sections, the latter half of which will be devoted to campfirc. The first will be further divided into a series of quarter-hour periods in which the pack will work mainly as sixes. One period will be given over to star work, the subject taken being decided by the individual sixes. The primary object of this is to strengthen the weak subject of those who arc more or less newcomers to the movement, but incalculable good must come from the older hands exchanging new methods of presenting the star tests, for even in the best of packs the well-known "work" games become stodgy in time. Another 15 minutes will bo given over to the preparation of a six stunt for the evening's campfirc, and at the same time it will be decided who from the six will tell the camp fire story. Yet a third period will be devoted to deciding the type of work the six most wants H.Q. to cover the following month, for Akela and Baghcera take one quarter-hour session each evening. Looking ahead, the six at the same time selects its campfirc item for the next month and the section of the star tests to be covered during the next work period. In this way the cubs prepare in advance their own Seeonee Pack programme. At the campfirc which brought to a close last week's thoroughly enjoyable evening four amusing stunts were put on at very short notice, and the cubbers were given the opportunity of studying, through the ears of a listener, four quite different methods of story telling. Old Wolves will be looking forward to the next meeting of the pack, which will be conducted on the first Wednesday in August.