FAREWELL TO SCOUTS
LORD BADEN-POWELL INSPIRING WORDS SPOKEN MELBOURNE. Jan. 11 In the silence of the forest at Gilwell Park, the Boy Scouts' camping ground in the Dandenong Ranges, the Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, last evening waited alone before a great cainpfire for the coming of a party of 650 Scouts at the end of their long bush hike. The ceremony was admirably organised. Parties of boys who had assembled beyond the campfire circle, moved in at the appointed time, each with a welcome for the Chief Scout. When all had assembled around the fire, weary but with spirits undaunted and thrilled with their experience, Lord Baden-Powell, in the solitude of the forest, gave his farewell message. " It is the greatest jamboree I have ever seen," said the Chief Scout, " not because of the numbers or the prominence given to Scouting, but because of the wonderful spirit of goodwill and friendship. The jamboree has ended, but the result will go on. Each of you be a friend to all and a brother of every other Scout, and thus you help bring in the Kingdom of God."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22006, 12 January 1935, Page 11
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