NEW ZEALAND SCOUTS RETURNING HOME

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 September 1947, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND SCOUTS RETURNING HOME

. ~ LONDON, Sept. 3. One hundred and ninety-two of the-233 New Zealand scouts who attended the world jamboree at Moisson,’ in France, are returning home on. the. Atlantis, which sailed from Southampton yesterday. The remainder, including the leader of tlie contingent, Sir Joseph Ward, will return on later ships during the next few weeks. After weeks of almost unbroken sunshine, both in Britain and France, the boys are all bronzed and fit. The party has an. exceptionally clean bill of health and only two of the 233 are at present on the sick list. S.ir Joseph Ward, who superintended the embarkation on the Atlantis, said that the. jamboree had been-an unqualified success. It had provided them all with invaluable opportunities for meeting scouts of other countries and furthering the international aspects of the movement. ’ ■ -

At the conclusion of the-jamboree, Sir Joseph-Ward represented New Zealand at the International Boy Scout Conference. It was decided by the ; conference that the world rover meet should be held in Norway in 1948, and attention was given to plans for the development of senior scouting,. .This was the first international scout conference since the death of Lord Baden-Powell, and among:other things it was charged with revision of the scout constitution. Sir Joseph Ward was elected a •member -of the executive of six, which; governs the affairs of world scouting.