BOY SCOUTS
INTERNATIONAL JAMBOREE N.Z. CONTINGENT (Per Press Association.) ■i CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The greatest effort yet made by the Ndw Zealand Boy Scouts to attend an. international jamboree .overseas has just been accomplished. Prom all over New Zealand, 241 Scout officers and Scouts have raised money to enable them to attend tho jamboree in Melbuorne from December 27 to January 7. The estimated cost is £25 a head. Tho money in most cases has been found by patents, but in .some instances community efforts have been made to send the contingent away. 4 ' .TPhe Now Zealand contingent will bp. the largest overseas body in Australia. Its section of the camp is being palisaded to represent a Maori pa, and each troop has been called a napu.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18583, 18 December 1934, Page 9
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