DOMINION SCOUTS FOR SYDNEY

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 July 1938, Page 8

DOMINION SCOUTS FOR SYDNEY

TWO LARGE PARTIES TO CPuOSS TASMAN (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Las: Night The biggest youth contingent ever to have left New Zealand, a troop of 5(i() Boy Scouts from the Dominion, will attend the forthcoming Australian 150th anniversary jamboree at Sydney in November. Tins is more than double the

number that went to the Melbourne centenary jamboree three years ago. The Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, is expected to be present at the jamho ree and will possibly visit New Zealand either before or afterwards. Ten thousand Boy Scouts will be under canvas at Sydney. The. New Zealand eon tingent will be commanded by Mr. .1. R. H. Cooksley, Dominion Commissioner of Training (Hawke’s Bay) and lie will also be accompanied by the Dominion Chief Commissioner, Mr. H, Christie (Wanganui) and Mr. J. Vogel (Welling-, ton), leader of the New Zealand cen | tennial jamboree organisation. I The first half of the contingent is to 1 sail from Auckland on December 2, returning on January Id, and will consist mainly of boys from the northern districts of the North Island. Soutf Island and central district boys will leave Wellington on December 27 and will have the opportunity of seeing something of the countryside of New South Wales, Sydney harbour and the environs of the city. It is expected that an even larger contingent of Australian Boy Scouts will reciprocate by coming to New Zealand in December next year to the New Zealand centennial jamboree at Herotaunga, Hutt Valley. On that occasion there will be more than 0000 boys en camped in wha’t will be the greatest gathering of boyhood ever to have taken place in the Dominion, !i