GREAT JAMBOREE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21983, 14 December 1934, Page 13

GREAT JAMBOREE

SCOUTS AT MELBOURNE

BOYS FROM 17 NATIONS

On December 27, the day on which the Boy Scout jamboree will open near Melbourne, the Frankston railway station will resemble something like the entrance to a beehive, says the Melbourne Star.

From early morning until dusk thousands of Scouts from 17 nations will be and departing, and officials will bo busy sorting and despatching many tons of luggage to the various sub-camps into which the 362aere site has been divided.

Five sub-camps have each been allotted a colour and each piece of luggage or equipment which arrives will have a label attached corresponding with the colour of the camp to which it belongs. Thus those handling the luggage will bo able to discriminate at a glance botween different camps. It is the object of the Jamboree Council to retain to the utmost the Australian atmosphere of the first jamboree to be held in the Southern Hemisphere. To this end the names of people famous in Australian history have been given to the sub-camps. Streets will bear typically Australian names, the main thoroughfare being named Boomerang Street, which it resembles in outline.

The jamboree . will have its own daily newspaper, published in the camp, which will contain all the news and full reports and pictures of events in the camp. As this will be the only souvenir record, arrangements are being made for the paper to bo ordered in advance, so that subscribers may be sure of obtaining a complete series.