THE BOY SCOUtS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1926, Page 4

THE BOY SCOUtS

DUNEDIN JAMBOREE

PEEPABING A MODEL GAMP.

(By Ttlipaph.) (Special to the "Evenlnj Port.")

DUNEDIN, This Day.

The Prince of Wales (Chief Scout of Wales), Bir Bobert Baden Powell (Chief Scout), the Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson), and Sir Alfred Piokford have sent messages expressing their best wishes for the success of the Boy Scouts' jamboree, which will commence at Tahuna Park on Saturday.' Over 1000 boys will be under canvas for two weeks. Preparations for the camp have now started. Telephones and electric light are being installed, and the carpenters are making the cookhouses. Approximately 100 tons of material will arrive on the ground this week. All the camp officials have arrived in Dunedin except Commissioner J. D. Campbell, who will be in charge of the camp, and who will be her* to-mor-row. The orders for foodstuffs have been large. The following list shows the amounts required:-—Bread, ten tons; meat, seven tons; potatoes and green vegetables, ten tons; sugar, two tons; jam, two tons; butter, two tons. Five tons of coal and seven cords of wood will be required fpr cooking. If a biscuit were issued to each scout night and morning, half a ton would be needed.lor the ptriod of the camp. The object e# the officials Is to make it a model camp, and according to the indications at present their wishes should be fulfilled. Th* camp will be officially opened on Monday. Th> first.'two-or' three days will bf occupied in running off tb« preliminary heats of competitions and in pr*'!" tising for three displays to J»fl jjjven at the Exhibition during the persond week of the camp. The Chief Beout Commissioner (General Andrews) will visit the camp during the second week.

A vacancy having occurred in the Port .Nicholson Sea Scouts visiting Dunedin, the district secretary is in a position, to offer the vac»ney,t<> any. other Scout. .