RETURN OF BOY SCOUTS

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1929, Page 13

RETURN OF BOY SCOUTS

MEMENTOES OF JAMBOREE ' ' •. ■; ,•/ -— .... ••• '•■■■ .■ ..—r? MOST EVENTFUL FIVE MONTHS. ' .. ' . . ANNUAL REUNIONS TO BE HELD, wj J ' v \‘ F ••■ ' : - ■ ■: By Telegraph.—Press Association. ■' .— Wellington, November 12, . jijj? Tanned, and looking the picture of <;■ health and good spirits, but full of grets that the most .eventful five of their careers were ended, the -.;Nei£sgjg Zealand contingent of Boy Scouts ar-, <• rived here to-day by the Ulimaroai from the jamboree at Birkenhead. Thevars'consoled, however, by the fact that they /. are coming home. Commissioner Cooksey, who j wag; in charge of the contingent, said they had had a wonderful time from the day they.jx| left New Zealand to the day they ar- . rived back. The jamboree itself was S, magnificent and unforgettable,, and tllej New Zealand contingent, in its Maori - pa, was not the least conspicuous component parts. The contingent brought back a carved totem pole,. the ft-; gift of the Chief Scout, from a 1200- Wi year-old oak tree’on his own property at -bi Gilwell Park. It is typically. Maori, : " and will be treasured together with the ; ■ flag presented by the Chief„ Scout as '-;Y Overseas Commissioner of the New Zea,- .5® land Scouts. Commissioner Cooksey received from Lord Baden Powell a -fine walking stick, made out of oak taken from old Westminster Hall. To keep in touch with one another’/fj now that they have returned, the members of the contingent, now the Ngapuhi tribe, have resolved on an annual re-> union. The Wembley contingent of 1924 . ‘ is the.Arawa tribe, the Arawas being the'Vfirst Maoris to come to New Zealand, and the Ngapuhis were the second arrivals. On the final night of the trip the pubis presented Commissioner Cooksey with an illuminated address and a bronze statue in recognition of'all - heaJfi had done. Assistant-Commissioner ford was presented with two autograph J L books. Major Sandford and Scoutmaster N. • Milne- will arrive in New Plymouth by the mail train to-night. A welcome; haß been prepared, and the Scouts will parade at the station. . v v '>f