THE CHIEF SCOUT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 244, 14 October 1937, Page 9

THE CHIEF SCOUT

TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND ’l,llll* PLANNED FOR END OF NEXT YEAR. 1 Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, Oct. 13. Provided his health enables him to undertake the long voyage, the Chief Scout, Lord Baden Powell, will visit New Zealand lor about 10 days shortly after Christmas, 1938, according to information given by him to the New Zealand representatives at the world jamboree held in Holland recently. One of these representatives, Mr. N. Casey, of Auckland, returned by the Wanganella, and he said that Lord Baden Powell had spent 45 minutes at the New Zealand camp during the jamboree, and had told them that he wanted to see New Zealand again and do some more trout fishing. Lord Baaen Powell told the New Zealanders that he intended to visit the Scouts’ jamboree to be held at Sydney at the end of 1938, and after that he would come to New Zealand to renew old acquaintanceships before sailing to Jamaica to attend the world jamboree to be held there early in 1939.

While some of the New Zealand Scouts were in England for the Coronation celebrations, said Mr. Casey, they had gone to the Chief Scout’s home at Pax Hill, Bentley, with all the overseas Scouts visiting England. Lord Baden Powell had remarked then that although there were still some parts of England to which he had never been, he wished to make another trip abroad, and he mentioned New Zealand’s fishing as being especially attractive to him.