Western Districts Scouting History - local and district clubs attend Jamboree

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Western Districts Scouting History - local and district clubs attend Jamboree Preservation copy of newspaper article, about Western Southland Scouts: News article typed out as below: The Copyright is unknown, the article author, publication and date is all unknown. If you can help identify any of the above details, please let us know, thanks. ARTICLE "The Western Southland Scout District contingent to the ninth New Zealand Jamboree, left Invercargill Airport yesterday for Hastings, where the Jamboree will be held, from January 3-10. The contingent is made up of boys and leaders, from Tūātapere, Nightcaps, Ōtautau, Ōrawia, Drummond and Riverton. After the Jamboree, the contingent will travel to the Rangimarie Marae in the South Waikato for a week. They will also visit Tauranga, Rotorua and the Waitomo Caves and other places of interest in the area. From left are: Front Row - Peter Guise, Craig Knox, Neil Allison, Alick Saunders, John Shand, Brent Pickworth, Myles Chamberlain, Keith Froude. Second Row - Terry Gorton, Trevor Erskine, Donald Laurie, Grant Catto, Quinton Malcolm, Scott Mullay. Third Row - Dwight Frew, Rex Brown, Bruce Drain, Chris Dyhrberg, Allan Rickard. Fourth Row - Shaun Bronkin, Andrew McLean, Sean Adamson, Blair Miller, Warwick Catto. Back Row, Leaders - Neil Wilson, John Speirs, Jon Spraggon." END [Above article preserved from the Margaret Thomas Collection, under Library and Archive exceptions, provisioned in the New Zealand Copyright Act 1994] HISTORY The Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom formed a branch in New Zealand in 1923. The Boy Scouts Association's New Zealand branch was incorporated in 1941 as The Boy Scouts Association (New Zealand Branch), Incorporated. They changed their name to The Boy Scouts Association of New Zealand in 1956 and then to The Scout Association of New Zealand in 1967. The Southland Area Scouts group was established 22 August, 1961 at the introduction of the Area system. The first Area Commissioner for Southland was appointed on 17 October, 1961. Sadly, in 2025 when this Community Archive entry was made, out of all the groups mentioned in the article above, the only group still operating is the St Andrews Scout Group, out of Ōtautau. Hopefully this entry will be added to as more information comes to hand. If you or anyone you know has any more information or photos to share or accounts of the Western Southland Districts Scouts groups, please do share this with us in the comments section. You can do this by making a comment in the space provided under the image page. Or you can make contact with us as per details on the archive front page.