Big Jamboree
pp. 80-81 · Read in the full issue
All Together At The Big Jamboree
When 15,000 Boy Scouts camped at a big jamboree at Lansdowne near Sydney the first week in January, the South Pacific was well represented.
AMONG the 3,000 tents pitched around the 400-acre jamboree city were those housing 90 scouts from Papua-New Guinea, 26 from Nauru, 11 from the New Hebrides, seven from Fiji, six from Nether lands New Guinea and four from Ocean Island.
Several of the groups gave colourful displays, particularly the New Guinea men, who put on tableaus and dances.
A further flavour of the Sout Pacific was Instilled with the vis: to the jamboree of West Samoa Prime Minister, Flame Mataafj who was a guest of the big. 296 man New Zealand contingent Mataafa addressed them in Samoal Fijian scout Adriu Kaubale, sta of the Shell documentary Two Me of Fiji, which has had a wide dis tribution in Australia and Ne] Zealand, was included in the Fij
There is no doubt at all that these Papuan scouts were having a lot [?] fun in publicly performing this drum dance at the big Sydney jambore [?] in January.
ingent, and he received a lion’s e of Press and radio publicity, iring the jamboree, the film ch tells the story of how two ns fare when they leave their group to work in Suva) was i a national screening on TV, Kaubale was interviewed at the of it. e Fijian contingent brought own yaqona suppiy with them, e Fijians were a great hit and had so many offers to swap es with fellow scouts that they In’t cope. They decided to put all their swapping until one al day near the end of the jam mi the air the Lansdowne camp d like an army division under is. the jamboree opened, camp ; stocked up with 100,000 loaves read, 200,000 eggs, 10 tons of cake, two-and-a-half tons of nd 15,000 gallons of ice cream, pparently that was only a drop le ocean. Nobody was game ve the final figures, well as the South Pacific cou nts, scouting groups came to ey from as far off as Cambodia, nd, Great Britain, Hongkong, i, Malaya, North Borneo, tan, the Philippines, Sarawak Thailand. ring the week of the jamboree, couts produced their own eight daily tabloid newspaper.
[?] and's representative at the jamboree, Ben Hoek, made friends with the Netherlands New Guinea contin ent, and played his guitar (left). Norfolk Island's contingent were a happy noisy band as they arrived at [?] ey's Kingsford Smith Airport on their way to the jamboree. They proudly showed their flag. Below, [?] bers of the Fijian contingent get a cheer as they pass the saluting base in Sydney's Martin Place, during [?] ty march by all members of the world jamboree. Taking the salute was Sydney's Lord Mayor Jensen.