PACIFIC ISLANDS SCOUTS ARRIVE
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 26. Almost 80 scouts from the Cook Islands, Western Samoa and Fiji will be attending the New Zealand national jamboree of progress at Trentham Memorial Park on January 3. The first party reached Auckland by air at the weekend and included Miss Tua Nichoaas, the only woman cubmaster in the Cook Islands. She and four other scooters will take part in a training course at Tatum Park before the jamboree.
The District Commissioner for Island Scouts, Mr A. W. V. Reeve, said cubs and scouts throughout New Zealand had responded magnificently to his appeal to pay the fares of the Cook Islands and Samoan contingents and to subsidise the Fijian party of 40. Almost £4OOO had so far been raised, he said. After the jamboree the island boys will be the guests of scout groups and districts from Invercargill to Auckland.
The Australian contingent of which half will arrive in Auckland and the other half in Christchurch on December 27 and 28, will number almost 500.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30943, 27 December 1965, Page 3
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