SCOUT JAMBOREE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23375, 17 June 1939, Page 16

SCOUT JAMBOREE

CENTENNIAL EVENT ENGLISH CONTINGENT PREPARATIONS PROCEEDING PRESENT-DAY DIFFICULTIES [by telegraph—press association] WELLINGTON, Friday Preparation for tho English contingent to attend the New Zealand Centennial Boy Scout Jamboree at Heretaunga in December are described in a letter received by Commissioner J. It, H. Cooksey (Wellington), from Lord Hampton. "We are working hard to get a, really good contingent for your jamboree, he writes. "As you can imagine things are not too easy at home just now. Quite apart the European situation, taxation has gone up all round and conscription may cut out some of the older ones who would otherwise make tho journey. However, we shall do our best and will strain everynerve and pocket not to let you down. I was very much struck by your fine contingent and their most attractive camp at the Sydney jamboree last sumLord Hampton added that Mr. J. S. Wilson, camp chief at Gilwell, the English headquarters of the scouting movement, was looking forward to representing the Chief Scout, L° rt « Baden-Powell, at the New Zealand jamboree. Mr. Wilson was second only in importance to the Chief Scout in the movement and would, he thought, be of great value to the jamboree, as ho had ono of the soundest brains in the scout fellowship, Commissioner Cooksey has also received a letter from the. Boy Scouts Association of Sydney expressing appreciation of the work done by the New Zealand contingent at the Sydney jamboree. SPECIAL EXHIBITION - DECISION AT WHANGAREI [from oxtb own correspondent] WHANGAREI, Friday As part of the centennial celebrations in North Auckland, a centennial •winter exhibition will be held in ngarei. The proposal has been made by the Northland Centennial Committee and adopted by the Winter Show Committee. Every possible assistance in the organisation of the will be given by the Centennial Committee. A feature will be the Auckland court, from the Centennial Exhibition at Wellington. The court will be transferred to W hangarei for the purpose. It is also hoped that each county in the area, will be represented by a court. To accommodate this exhibition, the Winter Show Committee will endeavour to have erected the new and enlarged show buildings that it is proposed to construct on an area of land leased from the Harbour Board, and close to the main business section of the town. As a centennial gesture, the Whangarei Borough Council has decided to allow the use of the Town Hall iree of charge for all functions of a wholely centennial nature,-or for raising funds for purely centennial purposes.