CENTENNIAL SCOUT JAMBOREE

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22656, 10 March 1939, Page 16

CENTENNIAL SCOUT JAMBOREE

INTER-ISLAND CYCLE RACE PLANNED COLLECTION OF APPLICATION FORMS (PBHS ASSOCIATION TELIORAM.) WELLINGTON, March 9. Application forms for the centennial boy scout jamboree at Wellington in December and January are now being circulated throughout New Zealand by the jamboree organisers. The forms must be filled in and ready for return by June 30, and their collection will be the occasion of a great cycle race. North Island v. South Island, over approximately equal courses from North Auckland to Wellington, and from Bluff to Blenheim. , Details of the cycle race have not yet been announced, but the idea is that from every scout headquarters local applications shall be taken to the nearest spot on the route and handed over to the racers for delivery, the race being to see which Island can collect its forms more smartly. In the meantime jamboree officers are preparing the site at Hetetavvtiga. At Easter a rover scout moot will be held there and some hundreds of rovers from all over New Zealand will attend. The moot will be opened by Sir Robert Clark-Hall. The rovers will carry on the work, now well advanced, of preparing the jamboree site. A letter has been received by the organisers to say that a contingent of 50 scouts is coming from Fin to attend the camp at Heretaunga. So far no announcement of the personnel has been made. The majority of the boys will be native Fijians, probably the largest body of IVtelanesian natives ever to visit New Zealand. Other overseas contingents are expected from Australia, South Africa, Canada, Holland, Great Britain, and Honolulu.

CAMP FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN

ORGANISATION BY SCOUT MOVEMENT \ CPMBS ASSOCIATION TIL»O»AM.) WELLINGTON, March 9. As the centennial good turn of the New Zealand Boy Scouts’ Association it is proposed to run a special crippled children’s camp in conjunction with the centennial jamboree to be held at Heretaunga, Hutt Valley, at the end of this year. Boys attending the camp will be entirely the guests of the scout movem The camp is being organised by the jamboree organisation, but the Toe H movement in New Zealand has undertaken to staff and run it.