BOY LUMBERJACKS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21231, 30 September 1940, Page 11

BOY LUMBERJACKS

STUDENTS HELP WAR EFFORT Hundreds of undergraduates, public and secondary schoolboys and Boy Scout troops are to spend their holidays this summer working in lumber camps in forests in Great Britain, trimming and stacking timber, says the Christian Science Monitor. The Forestry Commissioners have announced that an appeal to Oxford University for young men to work in the forests during the long vacation this year has met with a response from nearly 800 undergraduates. Their work is to be concerned chiefly with the provision of props and they are to be paid at the standard agricultural rates for the district in which they work.

Camps for the Oxford undergraduates have been arranged on sites in north and south Wales, the Forest of Dean, the Wye Valley, the valley of the Exe, and Savernake Forest.

Undergraduates from Cambridge and Bristol Universities have also volunteered to help in other camps but they are to work as individuals rather than as organised groups. Many public and secondary schools are planning to send boys in relays of two or three weeks. Boy Scouts, too, are arranging camps in Sussex and other counties so that they may take part in this national service.