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BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE

A' MUSEROOM " CITY" AUSTRALIAN PREPARATIONS PLUMBERS' VOLUNTARY HELP £fbom our owx correspondent] SYDNEY, Not. 25 A new "city" is springing up a 6 Bradfield, in the bush at the back of Lindfield, a fashionable suburb on the northern side of Sydney Harbour, and its population will grow in a few weeks to 11,000. Its inhabitants will be Boy Scouts who will come to attend the largest Jamjboree , yet held in the Southern Hemisphere, and lasting from December 29 to January 10. The organising secretary, Mr. H. J. Stoddart, said that as a result of the co-opera-tion and help given the jamboree would be one the greatest Boy Scout rallies ever held in the world. ---v An elaborate programme of spectacular events and presentations, in addition to formal Scout business, parades and demonstrations, will be arranged. The items include the "Life of Baden Powell," the "Pied Piper of Haraelia" (in whioh 1000 Cubs will be dressed as rats), and "Ancient Games of Rome." A feature of the preparations was the work done by 70 master plumbers. In one day they did the biggest plumbing job ever undertaken in Sydney. Their task was to reticulate the 500-acres site of Jamboree City. The 18,000 ft. of pipe lent by Sydney manufacturers and laid by the master plumbers- will be sufficient to give a daily supply of 100,000 gallons. The water ig being serviced to the camp in 285 shower units, 36 stand pipes and drinking fountains, and 30 ablution troughs. The master plumbers drew their own plans of the area and ga?e their services free. Sydney Boy Scouts have been working for many months, in week-end relays and during holidays, in -clearing the scrub from the. land, laying out streets and otherwise preparing the sites for hundreds of tents that will spring up to house the incoming flood of the world's youth. During the 12 days of the camp its 11,000 youthful inhabitants wfll consume 22,0001b. of butter, 47,00011* of meat. 98,0001b. of bread, 13,000 gallons of milk, 7000 dozen eggs and 14,0001b. of sausages.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23213, 6 December 1938, Page 8

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BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23213, 6 December 1938, Page 8

BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23213, 6 December 1938, Page 8