ANTARCTIC VISIT
Three Scouts Chosen (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. August 31. Three Queen's Scouts—a senior scout, an air scout and a sea scout—have been selected to visit the Antarctic this year. The boys selected are: Brent Sutton Bvthell. of 3 Eltham road. Blenheim, a member of the Blenheim Senior Scouts: David George Gray, of 54 Riverside road. Whangarei, a member of the first Shackelton Sea Scouts Troop: and Campbell Mansfield Hope, of Adams House the Christchurch Boys’ High School hostel, a member of the Wigram Senior Air Scouts, and formerly a member of the Tawa Troop. Wellington. The selection committee, which comprised LieutenantColonel R A Tinker, the New Zealand leader at Scott Base for the 1962-63 season, and Mr S. O. Field, the Boy Scouts' chief executive commissioner have also announced the names of the three runnersup who will be eligible to take the place of any of the three selected who are unable to go They are: Andrew Maxwell Cooper (Dunedin). John Richard Hurdley (Wellington), and Duncan Fraser Macdonald (Palmerston North).
The boys will leave New Zealand in the Endeavour on her maiden voyage south in mid-December and will return about a month later in an American ice-breaker which will call at Cape Hallett.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29916, 1 September 1962, Page 12
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