TAURANGA SCOUT IN LONDON

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 59, 28 July 1947, Page 5

TAURANGA SCOUT IN LONDON

PARTY VISITS MADAME TUSSAUD’S KING TO RECEIVE EMPIRE REPRESENTATIVES “They have some really marvellous models, and the majority of them are really life-like,” wrote Campbell Babington, a Tauranga scout, to his parents from London on July 4. He was referring to a visit made by a party of scouts to Madame Tussaud’s famous waxworks. He explained that a number of scouts had been deceived by a wax attendant standirig on the stairs. “He really looked the picture, but having heard the story before I was not so easily tricked,” he added.

A treat came to Campbell ■ Babington when he attended a tennis tournament at Wimbledon. Among the matches which he witnessed was a contest between D. Pails of Australia and J. Kramer of the United States. He wrote of the match: It was a great match of speed and science in which Pails took Kramer to four sets, eventually emerging tired and beaten. Kramer was on the whole superior in all departments with the exception of service, and his greater polish brought him a fairly comfortable win.” He said that a London yachting enthusiast had been intrigued with a photo of a seven-foot yacht of the Tauranga class. The enthusiast had asked for further particulars and another photo of the yacht. A great day for Empire scouts would be July 29, according to the writer, who said that on that date the King was to receive all scouts from the British Empire in Buckingham Palace. He adds: “All boys are looking forward to this occasion with much excitement, as this will be the first occasion we will have seen royalty.” The writer expressed his pleasure at the news of the All Blacks’ success in Australia. The news had been received by the scouts while still aboard the Rangitata. Dr. A. J. Harrop and his wife, who are joint editors of New Zealand News in London, intend devoting several columns of their weekly edition to the jamboree and have asked the writer to act as their correspondent.