SCOUT JAMBOREE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 54, 26 November 1938, Page 15

SCOUT JAMBOREE

Preparing The Site At

Heretaunga

PARTIES WORKING AT WEEKENDS

Large working parties of boy scouts are busy at weekends at Heretauuga clearing and preparing the site of the New Zealand Centennial Jamboree, to be Held there in December, 1939, and January, 1940. This weekend it is expected that about 50 scouts will camp on the site. The considerable task of ridding the site of gorse has been successfully achieved, but there is still a good deal to be done in the way of digging and grubbing before the site will be suitable for'the encampment and activities of the 5500 boys expected to attend the jamboree. A recent tire in that locality travelled over a portion of the camp site and the resultant debris will have to be cleared up.

The site will also have to be mapped and laid out, and the semi-permanent fixtures installed—carved gateway, administrative. buildings and drainage. Most of these will be deferred until nearer the final month of preparation, when a body of rover scouts will encamp on the site. It is the object of the jamboree organizers, led by Commissioner J. E. F. Vogel, to leave the work of preparing the site as far as possible to the boys themselves, for it is part of the scout policy to cultivate initiative and selfreliance. For this reason a special organization system has been set up among the Hutt Valley and Wellington scouts to provide working parties whenever required. The organizers have merely to give the word and state the number of boys required and senior scouts in each district will call up a quota of their troop who have been detailed to stand by for such a service. The entire system is managed by the boys themselves, and it says much for scout organization that on every occasion the requisite party of willing workers turns up promptly on the site. Wanganui To Be Represented Dominion Special Service. WANGANUI, November 25. Wanganui will be strongly represented at the New Zealand Centennial Boy Scout Jamboree, to 'be held at Heretaunga, Hutt Valley, at the end of next year. Preparations are already under way. The Wanganui scout distinct, is large and includes Ohakune, Raetihi, Bulls, Marton and Waitotara. Mr. A. F. A. Woollams, metropolitan commissioner, 'Wanganui district, will be in charge of one of the sub-camps, of which there will be five. Mr. L. J. B. Chapple, Wanganui district commissioner, will fee chief assistant of the subcamp.