BOY SCOUTS.
THE IMPERIAL JAMBOREE. PAUCITY OF APPLICATIONS. IPs® UNITED PBESS AB3OCIATIOH.I CHRISTCHURCH, November 3. At a meeting of the dominion executive of the Boy Scouts’ Association the seer -tary reported that, applications in respect c; only two scouts had been received in connection with the proposal to send a dominion body of scouts Homo to the Imperial Jamboree. The Chairman said that the application in respect of a Petone scout was the only one in order. The other application referred to an ex-scout, 18 years of age, who was prepared to pay his own passage. No applications had been received from Auckland, Otago, or Canterbury, and the executive had decided tha]t unless applications in respect of eight scouts were received no body of scouts as representing the dominion would be sent. It was decided to reply to the Petone troop that owing to the lack of applications received the executive had held over its final decision till November 17. It was also decided to notify the principal scout centres that the time for receiving applications had been extended to November 17, and that if no further applications were then received the proposal would be abandoned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19010, 5 November 1923, Page 9
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