SCOUT JAMBOREE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1938, Page 8

SCOUT JAMBOREE

PREPARATIONS FOR CENTENARY YEAR HERETAUNGA CAMP SITE (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day. In accord with their motto, “Be Prepared,” Boy Scout leaders are already making ready for the New Zealand Centennial jamboree, which will be the biggest youth gathering ever to have been held in this Dominion. At the end of next year boys of many nations will pitch their tents to form a canvas city, its main street a mile long, on a 100-acre site at Heretaunga in the Hutt Valley. Already work on the site has-been begun.

The jamboree is to be held from December 27, 1939, to January 10, 1940, There are more than 7500 Scouts in New Zealand eligible to attend, .and it is expected that 5000 will do so. The Australian contingent will number about 500.' Other parties are expected from Great Britain, France, Canada, the United States, South Africa, India and Ceylon, the West Indies, and Fiji. Highlights of the jamboree will be its official opening by the Governor-Gen-eral, Lord Galway, al fresco divine service conducted by the Bishop of Wellington, the Rt Rev H, St Barbe Holland, a massed march through Wellington city, culminating in a civic reception at the Town Hall, and a visit to the Centennial Exhibition. There will be camp-fire gatherings, some open to the public, daylight and torchlight displays of Scoutcraft, impromptu entertainments by the boys, a Maori concert with poi dances and hakas. a Sea Scouts’ afternoon upon Port Nicholson, and sightseeing trips to scenic and historic spots throughout the district. About 1000 Cubs, lads of seven to ten years, will visit the camp from as far afield as Palmerston North, Hawke's Bay and Wanganui. In addition, it is possible that the Scouts will co-operate in whatever historical pageantry is planned by the National Historical Committee for the period of I the jamboree.