Islands Scouts For Jamboree
About 90 scouts from the Pacific islands will attend the fifth national jamboree at Kaiapoi in January. An appeal was made by Mr A. W. V. Reeve, the national commissioner for island scouts, for scout districts and groups to sponsor boys from the islands. About $lO,OOO would be raised, said Mr Reeve. A party of 17 Rover scouts from Vatukula, Fiji, had volunteered to work at the jamboree and would pay most of their own expenses, said Mr Reeve.
The main contingent from Fiji will consist of 35 scouts and leaders under Commissioner S. Kupp Swami, of Lautoka, who alsc led the last Fijian contingent to New Zealand. Western Samoa will send a party of 16. Commissioner Captain J. D. Campbell who has been connected with scouting for more than 50 years, will lead 12 boys and three leaders from the Cook Islands.
Tahiti will be represented at the jamboree for the first time. The colony’s Commis|sioner (Mr Napoleon Spitz) will lead a party of 50 French-speaking scouts and scout leaders.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31862, 14 December 1968, Page 14
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