BOY SCOUTS RELAY CYCLE RACE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 143, 20 June 1939, Page 7

BOY SCOUTS RELAY CYCLE RACE

NORTH ISLAND VERSUS SOUTH FROM AUCKLAND 'l'o WELLINGTON AND INVERCARGILL TO NELSON. ( Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 19. The Boy Scouts' cycle relay race, the North Island versus the South, to mark the closing of entries for the Centennial jamboree, will now take place on July 15 instead of on Juiy 1, as originally planned. Indeed it would not have taken place at all had 'ot the South Island scouts already made full arrangements for participation and the jamboree organisers decided they could not well disappoint them. The race was originally mooted some six months ago, but later was abandoned, as requiring too much organisation at a time when the jamboree team was fully occupied With preparations for the Centennial camp. The idea had been completely forgotten when word was received from the South Island that final arrangements had been made in the assumption that similar preparations were going ahead in the North Island also. It was decided by the jamboree leader, Commissioner J. E. F. Vogel, to-night to carry on with the arrangements, but to postpone the date of the race to permit the North Island to plan its participation. The race will be from Auckland to Wellington and. from Invercargill to Nelson, a bicycle in each island starting simultaneously, and the first to reach its destination being the winner. The bicycles will be ridden by relays of scouts who will bring in the final applications from either island for attendance at the jamboree.