OVER 5000 SCOUTS
CENTENNIAL CAMP
Figures (not quite complete) are to hand showing that well over five thousand entries have been received for the Centennial Boy Scout camp and jamboree, at Heretaunga, in December. '•
The numbers of Scouts, Dominion centres, and other organisations are as follows:-- -
Lone Scouts, 112; Auckland, 720; Waikato, 159; Bay of Plenty, 100; Poverty Bay, 89; Hawke's Bay, 271; North Taranaki, 170; South Taranaki. 133; Wanganui, 178; " Wairarapa, 93; Manawatu, 261; Hutt Valley, 274; Wellington, 350; Nelson, 173; Marlborough. 5; Westland, 17; Banks Peninsula (Christchurch, North Canterbury, MidCanterbury), 434; South Canterbury, 171; North Otago, 116; Duriedin, 496; Otago Central, 78; Clutha, 54; Southland, 215; Wairoa, 34; Thames Valley, 199; King Country, 17; Northern Wairoa, 30; North Auckland, 94; Dominion headquarters, 6; Toe H, 27 (not completed). Total, 5049.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1939, Page 11
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132OVER 5000 SCOUTS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1939, Page 11
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