SCOUTS’ NOVEL NEST
DEVONPORT LOOK-OUT DEFENCE DEPARTMENT’S GRANT The new headquarters for the Devonport Boy Scout Troop will be probably the most novel in New Zealand, if not in the whole Scout movement. Dr. F. O. Pope, chairman of the Troop Committee, has been advised by Mr. A. Harris, M.P., that the Minister of Defence has sanctioned the use by the Devonport Scouts of the concrete “look-out” that peers over the brow of Mount Victoria and has ever been a curious reminder to the public of the unseen death-dealing forces hidden in the hill. Actually the building Is quite a comfortable place and was used by the Admiralty as a laboratory for the testing of the big quantities of high explosive that the Navy stored in the magazine under the hill. The magazine has been" moved to Fort Takapuna and the Boy Scouts have succeeded in their application to he granted the use of the building. It is proposed to furnish the Scouts’ new quarters comfortably and a campaign for funds is planned.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 335, 21 April 1928, Page 13
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173SCOUTS’ NOVEL NEST Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 335, 21 April 1928, Page 13
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