BOY SCOUTS FOR AUSTRALIA

Southland Times, Issue 23557, 11 July 1938, Page 11

BOY SCOUTS FOR AUSTRALIA

JAMBOREE IN SYDNEY IN NOVEMBER BIG CONTINGENT TO LEAVE NEW ZEALAND (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 9. The biggest youth contingent ever to have left New Zealand, a troop of 560 Boy Scouts from the Dominion, will attend the forthcoming Australian 150th anniversary jamboree at Sydney in November. This is more than double the number that went to the Melbourne Centenary Jamboree three years ago. The Chief Scout, Lord BadenPowell, is expected to be present. at the jamboree and will possibly visit New Zealand either before or afterward. Ten thousand Boy Scouts will be under canvas at Sydney. The New Zealand contingent will be commanded by Mr J. R. H. Cooksey, Dominion Commissioner of Training of Hawke’s Bay and will also be accompanied by the Dominion Chief Commissioner, Mr H. Christie, of Wanganui and Mr J. Vowel, of Wellington, leader of the New Zealand Centennial Jamboree organization. The first half of the contingent is to sail from Auckland on December 2, returning on January 16 and will consist mainly of boys from northern districts of the North Island. The South Island and central district boys will leave Wellington on December .27 and will have an opportunity of seeing something of the countryside of New South Wales and Sydney Harbour and the environs of the city. It is expected that a big contingent of Australian Boy Scouts will reciprocate by coming to New Zealand in December next year to the New Zealand Centennial Jamboree at Heretaunga, Hutt Valley. On that occasion there will be more than 5000 boys encamped in what will be the greatest gathering of boyhood ever to have taken place in the Dominion.