Cubs celebrate national day
About 140 “grand howls” will ring through Kaiapoi; this morning as 3000 cubs and scouts gather jat the Blue Skies base to celebrate national cub day. The day will begin at 10 a.m. with the traditional opening I ceremony, when all cub packs from Cheviot to Waimate will compete the grand howl. | The organising! chairman for the event, Mr Alan Russell, said that cub day !was held once every three years, and was a time for the youngsters to join together in fun and adventure through a variety of activity bases. About j 48 activities will be spread throughout the grounds, (including water slides, a bicycle-assembly relay,
pikelet making, whittling, ! brass rubbings and handicap awareness. |At lunchtime there will be displays of judo, abseiling, and tug-of-war, and by the Red j Cross Disaster Unit and a Maori concert party. j Mr Russell said that last year a challenge was given to cub packs to prepare a rug of some ( description, and these I would be on -display in the scout lodge. The: New Zealand national cub commissioner, Mr Don Clarke, and | the Canterbury area (commissioner, Mr Dougall Love, will both attend.
The event (will end about 3 p.m., when it is hoped that 148 balloons (one for each pack) will be released, j
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