Driving Course For Scouts
One of the off-site activities of the national jamboree is a driving course. There were more than 600 applications for the 120 places.
Sixty boys will take part in each of two two-day courses. The first course started yesterday, and the boys were split into three groups. One heard lectures and watched films shown by two officers of the road transport division of the Ministry of Transport in the Templeton Hall.
Another was instructed on car maintenance and repair, with the aid of sectioned engines and a sectioned and stripped car chassis, and the third group drove cars under instruction at the Canterbury Car Club’s Ruapuna Park racing circuit. All the boys have their driving licences, and the cars, which each will drive for about half a day, have been made available by six Christchurch car firms. Eleven cars are being used. Last evening a practice “accident” was staged at the Templeton Domain, with two
wrecked cars, four accident “victims” and tow-trucks, police and ambulance-men attending. The driving at the racing circuit includes instruction in cornering and braking, tests of garaging, judging the track of the vehicle, reversing and slaloms.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31880, 7 January 1969, Page 12
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