SCOUT JAMBOREE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1938, Page 6

SCOUT JAMBOREE

CENTENNIAL GATHERING IN WELLINGTON. PLANS WELL ADVANCED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Plans are already well advanced for the holdingat Wellington in conjunction with the Centennial celebrations, of the first international Boy Scout Jamboree ever seen in the Dominion, with between 5,000 and 6,000 boys under canvas. The camp at Heretaunga will be the biggest gathering of this kind ever known in New Zealand. Details of the arrangements for the jamboree were discussed in Christchurch during the weekend between the committee in charge and the leaders of the Boy Scout movement throughout the South Island, over a hundred of whom attended a meeting on Saturday night. The arrangements will be discussed with North Island Scout leaders at a meeting at Palmerston North next week. The camp is to be held from December 27, 1939, to January 8, 1940. The Defence Department has granted the use as a camping site of 100 acres between Heretaunga and Trentham, fourteen miles from Wellington and the Trentham Racecourse grounds and grandstands have been made available for parades and displays. One of the biggest events of the Jamboree will be a march of all the Scouts through Wellington to attend a civic reception, after which they will visit the Centennial Exhibition.