WORLD AWARD

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32077, 27 August 1969, Page 1

WORLD AWARD

Ashburton Scout

Maxwell Cawte, aged 12, an Ashburton air scout, last evening received a direct telephone call from toe world scout conference in Helsinki. Finland, advising him that he had won a world-wide contest to name a fund to help scouting development projects.

His suggested title was "Scout Universal Fund,” and his reward will be a free trip to the world scout jamboree in Japan, in-1971. Maxwell belongs to the southernmost air scout troop in the world. The winner of the award was kept a strict secret until the telephone call from Dr Gustavo Vollmer, chairman of the world conference, came through an amplified receiver in the meeting room at Ashburton. The call was also amplified

in the conference hall in Helsinki and was heard in more than 100 countries throughout the world in which scouting is established. Maxwell was told over the telephone that his photograph was being shown on a screen 12ft high at the conference session in Helsinki at that moment. With Maxwell in Ashburton were his twin brother, Gordon, and his parents, Mr and Mrs I. G. Cawte.

Air Vice-Marshal I. G. Morrison, of Wellington, the Deputy Chief Scout for-New Zealand and the country’s delegate at the conference in Helsinki, said it was a proud occasion to have the winning entry in the contest submitted from a New Zealand scout.

A Japanese scout official in charge of organising the 1971 jamboree also spoke to Max-