BOY SCOUTS

Grey River Argus, 5 December 1938, Page 10

BOY SCOUTS

Sydney Jamboree PREPARATION OF CAMP SITE. SYDNEY, November 24. A new “city” is springing up at Bradfield, in the bush at back of Lindfield, a fashionable suburb on the northern side of Sydney Harbour, and Its population will grow in a few weeks to 11,000. Its inhabitants will be Boy Scouts who will come to attend the largest Jamboree yet held in the southern hemisphere, and lasting from December 29 to January 10. The organising secretary, Mr H. J. Stoddart, praising the support received in building Bradfield Jamboree City, said that as a result of the cooperation and help given, the jamboree would be one of the greatest Boy Scout rallies even held in the world.

An elaborate programme of spectacular events and presentations, in addition to formal Scout business, parades, and demonstrations, will be arranged. The items include the “Life of Baden Powell,” the “Pied Piper of Hamelin” (in which 1000, Cubs will be dressed as rats,’ and “Ancient Games of Rome.”

A feature of the preparations was the work done by 79 master plumbers. In one day they did the biggest plumbing job ever undertaken in Sydney. Their task, voluntary undertaken was to reticulate the 500-acre site of Jamboree City. The 18,000 feet of pipe lent by Sydney manufacturers and laid by the master plumbers will be sufficient to give a daily supply of 100,000 gallons. The water is being serviced to the camp in 285 shower units, 36 stand pipes and drinking fountains, and 30 ablution troughs. The master plumbers drew their own plans of the area and gave their services free.

Sydney Boy Scouts have been working for many months, in week-end relays and during holidays, in clearing the scrub from the land, laying out streets, and otherwise preparing the sites for hundreds of tents that will spring up to house the incoming flood of the world’s youth.

During the twelve days of the camp its 11,000 youthful inhabitants will consume 22,0001 b of butter, 47,0001 b of meat, 98,0001 b of bread, 13,000 galions of milk, 7,000 dozen eggs, and 14,0001 b of sausages.