Sydney Scout Jamboree

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 309, 30 December 1938, Page 12

Sydney Scout Jamboree

P ELABORATE PREPARATIONS II ; SYDNEY, Dec. 22. '• A year ago at Bradficld, on the e North Shore, an area of 500 acres of ' bush and undergrowth was studded * with atones. To-day the bush, the ] undergrowth and the stones have gone, i i and on December 29 the site will be a town with a population of 10,000 Boy ® Scouts from 16 countries. They will live there for 12 days. By January 10 - the town will be no more. s The Australian and New Zealand j Scout Jamboree will be the result of IS months’ organisation. The World < - Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, will : t be represented by Lord Hampton, Chief [. Scout Commissioner, Great Britain, who : i will arrive in Sydney on December 2S. s An enormous amount of work has : been cheerfully undertaken by scouts J and officials. About 12 months ago the : site was selected and since then parties _ of enthusiastic scouts have spent their ! . week-ends felling trees, uprooting scrub, carrying stone and burning-off. '< \ Tfie town grew up behind them. Its > centre is a smooth green arena 440 ft. in 1, diameter. Hound it stand buildings of , all sizes, bridges, gateways, towers, ' > camping grounds and car parks. More | r than 100 tons of tent poles and many 1 a tons of larger timber for the erection 1 * of ornamental and symbolic gateways i 5 await the participating scouts. * The camp will have its own water - - service, telephone exchange and hospital. Twenty-six sets of wash build- 1 ings, fitted with more than 300 show- i era, are ready; and a telephone service 1 of 35 lines, connecting all parts of the s camp, has boen installed. A camp hospital to accommodate 60 patieuts, run I a by Girl Guides and medical officers, will < cope with accidents and sickness, r The largest contingent of visiting 2 •. scouts is that from New Zealand. Seven Melanesian scouts from the Loyalty « * Islands, who have never before left the 1 tiny Pacific island on which they were born, arrived with a party of 39 French scouts from Noumea. All of the seven Melanesians were bare-footed and they wore sarongs instead of trousers, j Several other oversea representatives = are already in Sydney. Interpreters will be at the service of the foreign visitors, and notices in six languages * will adorn tho walls of the Jamboree post office. Three grandstands have been built round the arena, and a l parking space for 4000 cars has been j set aside.