Pacific Boy Scouts
pp. 63-64 · Read in the full issue
IT is expected that there will be an in vasion of Australia by representatives of native Boy Scout Troops in the Islands, to attend the Scout’s Jamboree in December. A contingent of 26 native lads will come from Nauru. Their pic turesque uniform comprises a white sing let. a red neckerchief and a short red lavalava. There will be scouts also from Fiji, Noumea, and Loyalty Islands.
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Vertigan arrived in Sydney in August by the “Macdhui” from Rabaul, New Guinea, on furlough. Mr.
Vertigan, who until recently was Assist ant District Officer at Namatanai, New Britain, probably will be assigned to the Morobe district when he returns to the Territory.