SCOUT JAMBOREE.
A HUGE CONCERN. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. Dec. 22. Preparations for the Boy Scouts Jamboree beginning next Thursday at I? rad field, a northern suburb of Sydney, named after the Harbour Bridge designer, are well advanced. Five hundred acres will be under canvas to house 10,000 Scouts arriving from all parts of the world. Huge, contracts for catering have been arranged and all essential services provided, including a hospital capable of accommodating, 60 patients. New Zealand, with 600 Scouts, will have the largest representation. Other countries which are sending contingents are the United States, Canada, Ceylon, England, Wales. France. Hungary, India, Noumea, Scotland, South Africa and the South Sea Islands.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 21, 23 December 1938, Page 11
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112SCOUT JAMBOREE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 21, 23 December 1938, Page 11
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