SCOUT JAMBOREE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 220, 17 August 1939, Page 12

SCOUT JAMBOREE.

INITIAL ORGANISATION. ■ The first stage of the International . Scout Jamboree, to be held at Herc- , taunga from December 27 of this year . to January 11, 1940, is now complete. The total cf 5000 applications from . New' Zealand boys alone lias exceeded all expectations, and the Scouters and their helpers in charge are to bo congratulated on the work they have put in to the initial and most arduous stages of the Jamboree organisation. Now starts the complicated business of arranging transport, camping accommodation, food, and the thousands of other details for the 6000 boys—■mo easy matter. Each week-end willing Scouts and their supporters are to be seen at Heretaunga, digging ditches, levelling ground, clearing-scrub, and doing the thousand and one duties necessary for the assured smooth running of the camp. Boys from all over the world will ho gathered together enjoying the free, healthy, happy life that is^ Scouting. Camp-fires, entertainments, swimming sports—all those and dozens of other Scouting activities will he patronised. Over 261 Scouts will be attedning from the Manawatu district alone.