SCCUT JAMBOREE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21085, 11 July 1938, Page 5

SCCUT JAMBOREE

BIG CONTINGENT FOR AUSTRALIA By Telegraph —Pn°sf Association WELLINGTON, July 8. The biggest youth contingent ever to have left New Zealand, a troop of 560 Boy Scouts from the Dominion will attend the forthcoming Australian one hundred and fiftieth 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 Baden Powell, is expected to be present at the jamboree, and will possibly visit New Zealand either before or afterwards.

Ten thousand Boy Scouts will be under canvas at Sydney. The New Zealand contingent will be commanded by Mr J. R. H. Cocksey .Hawke's Bay), Dominion Commissioner of Training, and will also lie accompanied by the Dominion Chief Commissioner (Mr H. Christie, Wanganui), and Mr J. Vogel (Wellington), leader of the New Zealand jamboree organisation. 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 the 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 environs of the city.

It is expected that an even larger contingent of Australian Boy Scouts will reciprocate by coming to New Zealand in December of 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.