BOY SCOUTS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19638, 6 June 1929, Page 12

BOY SCOUTS.

THE WORLD JAMBOREE. THE NEW ZEALAND PARTY. To-morrow and Saturday next in lington will be great days for the party of New Zealand Boy Scouts v\ho are to go to England to represent the o minion at the World Jamboree, to be held at Arrowe Park, Birkenhead, to mark the twenty-first anniversary the movement. The New Zealand par is to leave bv the Tamaroa on un Bth, and is due at Southampton on July 14th. The jamboree is to last from July 31st to August 13th. All the members of the party are to be in Wellington by 10 a.m. to-mor-row. South Island members of it will leave by the ferry steamer this evening. All ranks are to muster at 10.30 a.m. to-morrow at the Gymnasium of the » eilington Y.M.C.A., "for inspection by the Dominion Chief Commissioner (Briga-dier-General A. W. Andrew). At noon, in the Parliamentary grounds, the set of colours which hag been speeiallv imported by the Dominion Executive Committee will be consecrated and handed over for use at the Jamboree. Other flags also will be handed over. The official farewell will follow.

The party will be free in the afternoon, and its members and their relatives may visit quarters on board ship and attend any local Scout entertainment or farewell. The time of embarkation will be from 7.30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Personnel of the Party. Following is the personnel of the New Zealand party: — Commissioner John Robin Harris Cooksey (Hawke's Bay), Assistant Commissioner Frederick William Sandford (New Plymouth), Scoutmasters Ernest Francis Asbrby (Dunedin), Percival Ralph Drummond (Wellington), Noel Robertson Milne (New Plymouth), Archibald James MeCallum (Dunedin), Walter James Canley Parker (Dannevirke), John Rich (Christchurch); As-sistant-Scoutmasters Ronald Liddell Cuthbert (Dunedin), John Downs (Dunedin I *, Leonard Fraser Moss (Wellington), Alfred Farquhar Shaw (Dunedin), George Edward Stevens (Dunedin), Roland David Watt (Dunedin), Charles Richard Wilkins (Wellington), John Henry Malcolm (Napier); Rover-Leader George Edgar Moreton (Dunedin), Rover Arthur Sperry Meachen (Wellington), Scouts Richard Rex Clark (Hamilton), Hedley John Charles Codd (Napier), Kenneth Huntley Crabtree (Napier), John James Drummond (Rissington). Roy Brinsley Ellery (Bulls), John Edward Ennor (Napier), Henry George Etheridge (Napier), Ivan Herbert Exter (Napier), James Edward Hull (Hastings), Frank Howard James (Napier), Harold Roy Joll (Napier), lan Earl Mcllugh (Napier), John Henry Pockett (Napier), Kenneth John White (Napier), Robert Major Haraki (Risington). Some Details. Commissioner Cooksey, who la in charge of the party, is forty years of afe, and one of tho finest scoutmasters in New Zealand. Assistant-Commis-sioner F. W. Sandford is well-known in Christchurch, and had experience with the Nerr Zealand party that attended the big jamboree in England several years ago.

To distinguish the party as Scouts from New Zealand, a semi-circular band will be attached to the point of each shoulder of the unifor.; it will have the words "New Zealand" in letters of white silk on a black ground. The scarf will be "all blaclc" vith a silver fern. The initials "N.Z." in white silk —a replica in miniature of Maurice Brownlie's jersey. Some timlier is being taken in the ship, and < the voyage it is to be painted witu Maori characters and figures, in imitation of the carvings on Maori whares. The party's camp at Arrowe Park will be a representation of a Maori pa. The Scouts from Hawke's Bay have been receiving training for some weeks in Maori dances and hakas, and these will be given at their campfires and on other occasions.

The New Zealand party, compared with the party from Australia and proportionate to population, is numerically slightly stronger. In England. London will be the base from which sight-seeing will take place, and also for mobilisation for a visit to the New Zealand battlefields in France. July 31st will be the opening day at Arrowe Park, and the opening ceremony is to be performed by H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught and Stratheara, K. 6., president of the Boy Scouts' Association. A very full programme is provided for every day, and will include national and other displays and rallies. It is anticipated that the jamboree will be attended by between 30,000 and 40,000 Scouts from almost all the countries of the world, and that at least 50 nations will be represented. After the jamboree i.ll the officers in the New Zealand party will go to the Gilwell Training Camp, in Essex, and will be put through a special training course. The boys, meanwhile, will visit relatives. On August 27th the party will reassemble in London, and will start on a motor-omnibus tour of the United Kingdom. These comprehensive tours take parties of 30 for two weeks for £ls per head, which includes accommodation and meals. Practically the same charge will cover the tour of the New Zealand battlefield's in France. The party will leave on their return to the Dominion towards the end of September.

General Parade. During the currency of the jamboree it is proposed to hold a general parade of all Boy Scouts throughout New Zealand on the afternom of Saturday, August 3rd. The total number on parade and a message from New Zealand will be forwarded by cable to Sir Eobert Baden Powell, the Chief Scout. The return passages of the New Zealand representatives have been booked by the Corinthic, leaving England on September 13th.