BOY SCOUT RELAY CYCLE RACE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 224, 20 June 1939, Page 5

BOY SCOUT RELAY CYCLE RACE

North Island Against South OVER 500-MILE COURSE The boy seouts’ cycle relay race, North Island versus South, to mark the closing of entries for the Centennial Jamboree, will now take place on July 15 instead of on July 1 as originally planned. Indeed, it would not have taken place at all, had not South Island seouts already made full arrangements for participation, and the jamboree organizers decided that they could not well disappoint them. The race was originally mooted six months ago, but Inter the scheme was abandoned as requiring too much organization, at a time when the jamboree team was fully occupied with preparations for the centennial camp. Indeed, the idea had been completely forgotten, when word was received from the South Island that final arrangements had been made, in the assumption that similar preparations were going ahead in the North Island also. , , It was decided by the jamboree leader, Commissioner J. E. F. Vogel, last night to carry on with the arrangements. but to postpone the date of the race in order to permit the North Island to plan its participation. The new date also accords better with the closing of jamboree entries on July 10. The race will be from Auckland to Wellington, and from Invercargill to Nelson, the bicycles in each island starting simultaneously, and the first to reach its destination being the winner. The bicycles will be ridden by relays of scouts, who will bring in the final applications from either island for attendance at the jamboree. In each case the course will be approximatelv 500 miles. The South Island boy scouts have been presented with a special bicycle by the Calder Mackay Company. Ltd., Dunedin.