BIG BOY SCOUTS’ CAMP

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27011, 10 April 1953, Page 11

BIG BOY SCOUTS’ CAMP

JAMBORETTE PLANNED FOR JANUARY MOTUKARARA CHOSEN AS SITE Between 2500 and 3000 Boy Scouts are expected to go under canvas at Motukarara racecourse on January 4 for the largest camp of its kind held in New Zealand. Plans are now being made by an organising committee for the jamborette.

Scouts numbering between 250 and 300 from Australia, Fiji and Western Samoa will attend the jamborette, which is being held to repay the hospitality New Zealand scouts have received while attending jamborees in Australia, the last in January of this year.

The jamborette will have a population equal to that of Kaiapoi. Each troop is expected to provide its own camping equipment, but the committee will be responsible for the complete shopping, postal and banking centre, the churches and canteens. Canterbury was the cradle of scouting in the Dominion, and the jamborette will also celebrate the forty-fifth anniversary of the first scout camp held at Woodend. when the former Chief Scout. Colonel D. Cossgrove, who had campaigned with Lord BadenPowell in South Africa, was in charge. The County Commissioner (Sir Joseph Ward) will be in charge at Motukarara. The jamborette co-incides with the visit to Christchurch of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. The suggestion has been made to the Internal Affairs Department that a visit to Motukarara should be arranged for Her Majesty. If the visit is not possible, the scouts will be transported to Christchurch to see the Queen. All the scouts will be taken to Akaroa. the foundation place of organised settlement in Canterbury, and the overseas scouts will visit the West Coast and the south.