BOY SCOUTS’ JAMBOREE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 4, 4 December 1931, Page 3

BOY SCOUTS’ JAMBOREE

meeting of committee. committee of'the West Coast Scouts jamboree to be held at I- tins month met at Feilding iday afternoon, Commissioner E. 'H., -all presiding. Also present were i -umissioner Stubbs (Palmerston v nli. Messrs Ihos. Watson, T Onl W. K Carthew, C. S. Jeffs G ] x nigton, G. J. h itzpatrick, K. M. ] ; ile, A. G. Buist, Commissioner i '-tie, Messrs G. S. Gordon W ); r .,nii and A. F. A. Woollams (Wai -anui). Apologies for absence were -.'.-’ived from Lieut.-Colonel Sandle i Palmerston. North), Messrs B .J .Inrobs (Palmerston North), Messrs w' li. McLean, J. S. Tingey and T. K. HayThe Borough Council notified the ,„nniitteo of the appointment of Crs (*,illins and Kilvington to the com- , itec, and on the motion of the chairman, Mr H. E. Hocken was E Tied to the committee. The suggestion put forward hy Dominion headquarters that the camp roimnandant be known as camp chief jn.tead was adopted, but the suggested changes in the titles of other officers were not made. Mr Buist reported that, at the instigation of Commissioner Christie, he bad invited the Wellington Scouts to fend as many boys as ]>ossible to the jamboree. An invitation had also been sent to Rev. H. Harris, of Tai-

IndVrenTv* 83 c l lap]ain to the camp •Renlieo P y WaS bei «g awaited, centres of T 1 re A eived scout inc ' 06 ’ onl - v in or two wouM statin S that boys "ould be unable to attend. J Scontmn!it SlOn U; Hassall re l>orted that scoutmaster Street, of Feilding bad jamboree with Scoutmaster Head of Wanganui, assistant. ’ medicni m° Cal doctors were appointed medica l officers to the camp. ?; Ust ’ , Ha V, Collins, Kilvingn, and Major McLean were apoointfirior ° Ca il €x ecutive committee to nalise all details in connection with the jamboree. offer of the Palmerston North t>t. John Ambulance Association to supply an ambulance kit to the camp was received with thanks, as was also Mr lvilvington’s offer of a t—ewriter tor camp office use. The committee went into details of supplies, etc., to the camp, finalising some matters and referring others' to the executive committee.