MONEY FOR SCOUTS' JAMBOREE

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22822, 22 September 1939, Page 8

MONEY FOR SCOUTS' JAMBOREE

—r —♦ . AUTHORITY IN BILL FOR REFUNDING ... .'From Our Parliamentary Reporter.! WELLINGTON, September 21. Authority for the payment to Boy Scouts’ Associations of the money contributed towards the New Zealand Centennial boy scouts’ jamboree, which was to have been held at Heretaunga, is contained in an additional clause ’ to the Local ’ Legislation Bill which was introduced by GovernorGeneral’s Message in the House of Representatives to-night. An explanatory memorandum states that the promoters of 'the jamtforee had collected between £7OOO and £BOOO tor wards the expenses, but because of the ■‘outbreak of war it had become necessary to abandon the proposal. “There is, however, an obligation on the promoters to refund to the contributors the amounts already collected,” the .statement added. “As ’ these amounts were contributed mostly in small sums by individual persons most of whom 1 being boy scouts, are infants, there are practical difficulties in the way of making individual refunds. To overcome these, the promoters desire ’authority to refund in lump sums to various boy scouts’ organisations throughout the Dominion, leaving it to them to make the individual disbursements. This is an [equitable and practicable arrangement in view of the special circumstances.”