SCOUTS FROM OVERSEAS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19217, 5 January 1926, Page 10

SCOUTS FROM OVERSEAS.

BOUND FOR THE JAMBOREE. TROOP FROM SOUTH AFRICA. ANOTHER FROM VICTORIA. [BY TELEG ItAriT. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] WELLINGTON, Monday. An nnnsual colour note was. struck among the passengers who arrived from Melbourne by the Moeraki to-day by the presence of a number of boy scouts in their multi-coloured shirts and shorts, and displaying all sorts of quaint decorative devices which have a meaning in the scout world. One group had as hat bands strips of the hide of the springbok, with the dappled white and tan hair still adhering. These were a platoon of ton boy scouts from South Africa who are on their way to take part in the big jamboree to be held at the Dunedin Exhibition this month. The lads were under the control of Scoutmaster C. G. D. Groom, of the Second Benoni Troop of the Transvaal, the headquarters of which are at Johannesburg, and Scoutmaster G. E. Staples, of the Seventh Troop, Capetown. Scoutmaster Groom states that they left the Transvaal on October 10 and travelled from Capetown to Melbourne by the Barradone. In that centre they were given a great welcome, and for 18 days were feted and shown the sights of the city and State, to the immense delight of the boys, who were in most cases enjoying their first trip away from home. Then followed a delightful fortnight in Tasmania, where Christmas was spent. After attending the jamboree at Dunedin the scouts will visit the sights of interest in the North Island before they leave Auckland for Sydney on February 5. They are also to pay a visit to Hobart before they finally sail for South Africa on March 12. Scoutmaster Norman James, of the Hampton Troop, is in charge of some 15 boy scouts from Victoria, also bound to the jamboree. These boys are pretty thoroughly representative of the whole State of Victoria. Ten will return home via Bluff, but five will accompany the South Africans through the North Island. A PARTY FROM AUCKLAND, THE HERNE BAY TROOP. Thirty-six lncky boys left by the 7.45 express last evening on a two weeks' trip to Dunedin to attend the Boy Scouts' jamboree. They were members of tho Heme Bay troop and were accompanied by Scoutmaster A. Norwood. The young faces were aglow with the excitement and novelty, of the expedition as they waved manly farewells from the carriage windows, and the hugs and kisses bestowed upon them by their proud womenfolk on : the platform would have done justice, to ,a, contingent of soldiers departing for war. Tho district commissioner, Mr. R C. Grigsby, and the district secretary, Mr. J. J. Mead, supervised the arrangements. Altogether over 100 Auckland scouts, drawn from the St. Barnabas' and Leys Institute troops and the Calliope Sea Scouts, will go to Dunedin. One party will leave this evening and the other to-morrow.