Cubs hold holiday camp
Fifty-five boys aged 9J to 11, attended the tenth Rapanui district cub holiday camp held last week-end at the Woodend Youth Lodge. The district cub leader (Miss B. Beaton) and camp mother (Mrs M. Grocker) were assisted by twenty scouters- The boys from the Redcliffs, Sumner Ratoo and Huia, Lyttelton Cressy and Randolph, Heathcote and Diamond Harbour packs, entered camp on Friday evening and highlights of the piogramme were Olympics, complete with flag, based on the cub athlete badge requirements, a human Grand Prix and flagging down at check points to be tested on cub knowledge, and a hike across country to the scout cairn marking the first camp in New Zealand, part of the return journey on hands and knees along a track cut in dense lupin and scrub. The illustration shows Bruce Robertson, of Heathcote, and John
Schurink, of Diamond Harbour, tasting the thrills of almost flying, on the permanent 200 yard flying fox erected at the lodge.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32777, 30 November 1971, Page 21
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