BOY SCOUTS.
THE DUNEDIN JAMBOREE. (rBESS ASSOCIATION TJII.EGKASJ.) • DUNEDIN, November 26., Duncdin is to be inVaded on January 9th by 1100 Boy Scouts, Sea Scouts, and Scoutmasters, , who will go into camp at Tahuna Park for a jamboree extending over a fortnight. Tho executive in charge of the jamboree has secured a grant of £2OOO from the Government, and this sum will .pay a '-very large proportion s of the fares of fXW Scoutmasters and Scouts. T'ho fares of Scoutmasters and, boys under lo_ will bo paid in full, and Scouts over_ 10 years* of age will be called upon-to'pay only half of their travelling expense's. An arrangement lias been made with the Union Steam Ship Company by which 220 boys will leave Wellington on Friday, January'Bth, and the remaining 352 will leave on the following day. To obviate the necessity of billoting boys in Christchurch on Sunday, a special train will be run from Lyttelton to Dunedin on that day. The camp will he broken on Sunday, January 24tE, and a special train will take the boys to Lyttelton, where a ,ferry > boat will be waiting to take them to Wellington.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18550, 27 November 1925, Page 14
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