GREAT JAMBOREE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21396, 20 October 1934, Page 10

GREAT JAMBOREE

TEN THOUSAND BOYS I MELBOURNE GATHERING ELABORATE PREPARATIONS 7 1 Ten thousand Scouts will shortly bo | converging on Melbourne from nil parts |l of the world for the Centenary Jamil boree from December 27 to January | 13. The elaborate preparations necesI / eary for their reception and aceommo- | dation are well in hand. Thirteen {! countries will be represented by con- | tingents of varying strength ranging I from 220 from New Zealand to four I from Japan and three from Hungary. 1 The complete .list with approximate jj numbers is as foJlows: i.ngland, 20; I India, 25; Ceylon, 20; Java, 12; Ma--1 / laya, 41; China, 5; Japan, 4; America, | 100; Canada, 50; Manila, 10; Fiji, 15; | Hungary, 3. From Australia the repreI eentation is 'expected in the following |j strengths:- South Wales, l*o0; { Queensland, 200; South Australia, 950; I Western Australia, 200; and Tasmania, | 350. The Victorian contingent will | number 6500,. | This little army will be accommo-, I dated at Frankston in a camp covering | more than 300 acres of ground, 100 of I which will be used for actual camp- | ing. Water' iis being laid on through 1 two miles of piping and delivered I through 750 taps and 300 showers. Bell tween 2* and three miles of roads have 1 been made, a;nd a five-acre playing field 1 has been laid out and a three-acre I arena in the sandhills, around which I grandstands to accommodate 2500 1 people are to be erected. Covered space | with an area of between 7000 and 8000 I feet will be provided for offices, stores 1 and other necessary services. Appetites oi the Boys A post office will be built capable of handling all classes of postal business and will include a telephone exchange with 30 lines.- There will also be three banks. A 60-bed hospital will be equipped by the boys, staffed by the Girl ' Guides and superintended by Matron Grace Wilson,' of the Alfred Hospital, who has chosen this way of spending her annual holiday. The camp will have its own transport service, and there will also be a motor-bus service be!f tween the camp and Frankston rail- ! way station for the use of the public.

With so many husky appetites concentrated in ope small area, food will play an important part, and all the requirements have been studied aud met down to the finest quantitative and scientific detail. The day s needs in some of the main items will look like this: Bread MOOlb., meat 75001b. (including 20,000 chops when chops are "on"), eggs 20,000, sausages nearly two miles, butter half a ton, potatoes 50001b., fruit 30001b., milk 1000 gallons, and so on. Scientifically, the menu is equal to 4iX)O calories or a little over. Sheer quantities, whether of pounds or calories, however, do not provide the only problem, for, with so many races represented arid with religion complicating the meau in some instances, there are many smaller considerations Meat tor the Indians Pork in any :form must be rigidly excluded from the menu of the Mohammedans, and their goat meat, mutton and poultry must be specially killed. Beef must-be squally rigidly excluded from the diet oil the Hindus, as the cow to them is a sacred animal. They must never be permitted to see anything killed, and the isheep and poultry which form their staple foods must be killed by decapitation The Americans, too, are inclined to be "fussy." Thty have asked for larger quantities than those provided in the ordinary dietary scale—expressing their willingness to pay all the extra cost — particular# with regard to milk, cereals,, sugar - (ration double*), apd dried fruits. Their dietary includes ice cream and an egg in the coffee, which they drink to the exclusion of tea They have laid down a calorific value of 3500 a day, but this is exceeded by the ordinary scjj.le. The Hungarians are keen about their sugar, too, and have asked for liberal supplies.