NCBS Links Up With Great Scout Jamboree

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 30, 6 January 1939, Page 3

NCBS Links Up With Great Scout Jamboree

At the present time, more than 10,000 Boy Scouts from nearly every country in the world are gathered at the great Scout Jamboree at Bradfield, near Sydney, Australia. Ata time of international unrest like the present, the jamboree will hea very useful purpose. Zealand is represented yA large contingent, and the ‘6S has arranged a comprehensive programme for the purpose of keeping New Zealanders in close eontact with their representatives ' jin Sydney.

p . The first contingent of scouts jeft. from Auckland on December 20 by the Awatea, and 1ZB broadcast a description of the departure. Then, on Tuesday, December 27, the second contingent left from Wellington, 2Z2B being there with a microphone as the ship drew out. Christmas Day, shortly after noon, the NCBS hooked up with a radio telephone conversation between the youngest New Zealand scout in Sydney and his mother in Wellington. The talk was broadcast by all stations, and the young scout conveyed Christmas greetings from his fellow scouts to their parents in New Zealand. During the actual jamboree, the NCBS has arranged for a description of each day’s proceedings to be cabled to New Zealand, and

Senieal this will be broadcast from all stations at 6 o’clock each night. It is expected that the "Sydney shortwave station, VK2ME, will be directing special broadcasis ali over the world, including each night a campfire programme arranged by the scouts of different nations. Arrangements are being made with VK2MW to rebroadcast these programmes.