GREAT JAMBOREE
SCOUT BUSTLE AND EXCITEMENT, YOUTH GATHERS AT MELBOURNE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7.30 p.m. Melbourne, Dec. 28. Bustle and excitement prevailed at Frankston," Melbourne’s popular seaside resort, to-day when 11,000 Boy Scouts i moved into camp for a jamboree which will be officially opened by the Gov-ernor-General, Sir Isaac Isaacs, to-mor-row. ; • From the tiniest cub to the oldest rover all laboured throughout .the day. More than 1000 tents were erected to house the largest assemblage of youth ever seen in the southern . hemisphere. Cheery Malayans and other dusky scouts from the East, more solemn youths from India, bewildered contingents from France and central European countries, and brawny lads from Canada, South . Africa and New Zealand toiled with their Australian compatriots, all .fired with the, sole ide© of making the jamboree the best yet. •
Each group is setting up its camp ’ih its own national style, decorated in the custom of the country represented. The New Zealanders have a picturesque display based on Maori legends and ’ beliefs, ’ ,
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1934, Page 4
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