KOPUAWHARA NEWS
SCOUT TROOPS’ TOUR (Herald Correspondent.) At a meeting of the committee of the Boy Scout troop, held at the residence of Mrs, Gumming, there were present Mr. J. Hilliard, chairman, Mrs, Cumming, hon. secretary, Mrs. F. Pemberton. Mrs. E. Hunter, Mr. W. Cumming and Mr. G. A. Read, scoutmaster. The principal business centred round the report of the scoutmaster on the recent tour of a party of Scouts from the Kopuawhara and Wairoa troops. This was highly Successful ancß most enjoyable to all included in the party, the itinerary including a week camping in Whiteman’s Valley, Upper Hutt, as guests of the 3rd Lower Hutt Troop, and a week of excursions, which included visits to the Centennial Exhibition, zoo, museum, and art gallery, botanical gardens, H.M.S. Ramillies, the Awatea, central fire station, Hannah’s boot and shoe factory, Pdtone woollen mills, Ford motor works, and railway workshops. It is regretted that the troop is losing its two patrol leaders, Gordon Hunter and Fred Hilliard, who are to attend the Gisborne High School this year.
Mr. H. Highet, of the engineering staff at No. 3 Camp, Kopuawhara, has returned after competing in the recent yacht races in Auckland. —Miss J. M. Deighton, of the school staff, has returned for the commencement of the new year after a holiday spent in Wairoa with her parents, and in Wei lington visiting the Centennial Exhibition.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20164, 6 February 1940, Page 12
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