SCOUTS JAMBOREE

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1929, Page 6

SCOUTS JAMBOREE

NATIONS MARCH PAST.

A COLOURFUL AND VARIED (

SPECTACLE,

LONDON, Aug. 1

The march past of the Boy Scouts •at the jamboree at Arrowe Park was' art’ unforgettable sight. As the legion' of boys swung by, under the eye of the Chief Scout/ tlie Americans carried the Stars and Stripes and the 200 Australians carried the Commonwealth flag. The rest of the nations followed ,in alphabetical order,, with flags flying and bands playing. A contingent Oi German boys had a particularly warm welcome from the crowd.

The whole was a colourful spectacle ewing to the varying uniforms, scarves and national emblems. Many corftingents also carried pennons, which they raised in salute and dipped as they passed the saluting judge. THe contingents; which represented forty-two nations, dominions and colonies, took fifty minutes to go by, 25 abreast. Canada’s backwoodsmen made a lirave show, with-their maple leaf badges on yellow cardigans. There were Bulgarians, green-turbaned Indians, Japanese and other popular squadrons,-, A LieutenantrGenera! ; Vjßadrecipient ofa jspontaneous (/greeting with tire song, “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow,’’ when, .he,broadcast dress, eulogising the* 4york..-pf v .the.-fi-uka - of Connaught, as president of the British Scouts,’Association. He expressed., the hope for tlie continued progress of scouting,^>. A,% fi'i . Three thousand British Scouts gave an exhibiton of fdjk-dancing to broadcast music, concluding with 1500 Scots dancing Highland reels to the bagpipes. The fihal three cheers for the King were given with rare vim by the biggest assemblage of boys in the history, of the world.

PRINCE IN CAMP

LONDON', Aug. 2,

While the Prince of Wales' is at Arro>v Park he will rough it with his fellow Scouts. His tent is pitched on a. strip of lawn shaded by trees in the front of Arrow Hall. It contains only a camp bed, washstand, table and a chair. Lord Baden Powell, who will be the Prince’s Equerry, will tent alongside. Mr Mortiriier'Schiff, the millionaire American banker, and Vibe-Presi-dent of tlie American Boy Scouts handed, the Prince .of Wales' & cheque for £IO,OOO to establish a fund for the promotion of .a boys? international fellowship, which the Chief Scout will direct from London.

Tlie newspapers pay a tribute to Lord Baden Powell’s peerage, as a fitting.. climax to (.twenty-one . years’ service in the Boy Scout movement, making his name a household word through-' cfat tlie world'.