BOY SCOUTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 June 1939, Page 3

BOY SCOUTS

INTER-ISLAND CYCLE RACE

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, Jun 1!)

The boy scouts’ cycle relay race. North Island versus South Island, to mark the closing of entries for the Centennial Jamboree, will now take place on July 15 instead' of July 1, as originally planned. It. would not have taken place at all had not the South Island scouts already made full arrangements for participation, and the jamboree organisers decided- that they could not well disappoint them. The race was originally mooted some six months ago. but. later it was abandoned, as requiring too much organisation at a. time when the jamboree team was fully occupied with preparations for the Centennial camp. 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. It was decided by the jamboree leader, Commissioner .1. E. F. .Vogel, to-night, to carry on with the arrangements, but to postpone the date of tl(c v ’rac6 to permit the North Island to plan, its participation. The race will be from Auckland to Wellington, and from Invercargill to Nelson, the bicycles in each island being started 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.