SCOUTS’ WORLD JAMBOREE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20706, 2 May 1929, Page 10

SCOUTS’ WORLD JAMBOREE.

ZEST OP THE PRINCE OP WALES. (From Owe Own Correspondent.) . LONDON, March 21. It is announced that" H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, beside attending a great rally and march past of the nations at the Boy Scouts’, coming-of-age celebrations at Arrowe Park, Birkenhead, in July and August, will spend the night of August 1 under canvas with his 50,000 brother Scouts from the 42 nations of the world which have adopted scouting for boys. When the Prince took part in the Boy Scout jamboree at Wembley in 1924 he delighted some 20,000 Scouts, when, during a camp fire sing-song, he sprang up from his log seat, ,t3irew his' blanket from his shoulders, and joined with abandon in a wild Highland reel. This year, in addition to the massed Highland dancing ‘ of some 1600 _ Scottish Scouts, there will be massed displays of old English folk dancing by the Scouts of English counties. In all parts Scouts are busily learning such old favourites as Black Nag.' Bellinger’s Round, Nancy’s Fancy. Gathering Peascuds, ind We Won’t Go Home Till Morning. With the example of the Chief Scout and Chief Guide, Sir Robert and Lady Baden-Powell, before them—they only a week or two ago taught their fellow-passengers folk dancing aboard the Duchess of Richmond—the English Scouts can safely be relied on to put up a good show against their brethren from over the Tweed,