Note: The stories in  this Chapter are extracts of articles in the "Jamboree Daily". The author has exercised editorial discretion in modification of some of the original content.

Scouts helping connect power lines (Jamboree News) Jamboree Leave Pass (author collection_) EXCURSIONS                                                  Many trips to places of interest in Melbourne and nearby were oganized for scouts during the Jamboree. They were either half or full day excursions starting and finishoing at the Camp.  Bookings had to be made at the VicTour Bureau in the Shopping Centre on Brady Rd. Ticket prices varied - ranging for 6/- for half day tours, 26/- for full days. They included the following: Swimming at Carrum, Morwell/Yallourn Eildon and Snob's Creek Hatcheries Phillip Island, Cowes. Healesville Sanctuary and Maroondah Dam, Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula Drouin Butter Factory Penguin Parade Melbourne City Sights. Sir Colin Mc-Kenzie Sanctuary, Healesville Dandenong Ranges Railways Museum Peter's Ice Cream Factory. OVERNIGHT HIKING TRIPS The work of many months on the part of a large staff inspired by Commissioner Bill Waters, came to fruition when 275 Seniors, Rovers and Scouters undertook eleven different multi-day hike routes each through the back country of the Warburton- Powelltown district. The routes followed by the 11 parties of 25 traversed country which could not be reached any other way than on foot. It is old timber-milling country and many of the routes were along old timber tramlines, which will be blotted out before many more years elapse. Others followed the slopes of Mt. Donna Buang and discovered the wonderland of nearby Boobyalla. Others followed the courses of Melbourne's chief water supply aqueducts. Many participants saw our rain forest country for the first time. To Scouts from Alice Springs and several from north of Cairns, this country was something new. Even to many Victorians there was a lot of interest to be seen. The rations were specially worked out by the Senior Ventures, they have proved most excellent. The ideal, of course, for hike rations, was for a maximum of food value with a minimum of weight. The hiking party included 50 from NSW. 30 from Queensland and 30 from South Australia, 12.from Western Australia and three from Tasmania. The remainder were Victorians. The age range of participants was very wide: the youngest       scout was 15 and the oldest 44 The Rover Memorial Hostel, in Warburton,  built by voluntary labor in memory of Rovers who died in the second world war, was the centre of hike organisation. Each hiking party was contacted daily by a runner who will cover some of the journeys by car and the rest by foot.

(Above) Main Gate on Brady Rd (From Great Great Game) LOST CUBS During the Cub Day, lost Cubs were gathered in at the Cub Information Centre. There is no truth in the rumour that unclaimed ones were held for 24 hours and then destroyed! TRANSISTOR RADIOS! The plague of the Jamboree. Can't you leave your transistors at home, fellas, when you go for a walk ? Or do you get to feeling lonely ? SECURITY This is a brief word of commendation for the Security lads on the fine work they have been doing on the gates. This job demands a nice balance of tact, firmness, and general know-how, and the boys have been combining them nicely, sometimes under difficult conditions of traffic-jamming and impatient motorists. Incidentally, as a humourous sidelight to their work — Bergins Road motorists yesterday were startled by the sight of one of the Security boys cracking a 10-foot stockwhip fairly expertly near the gate. "Blimey," said one prospective camp visitor, "is that the way they're keeping visitors from getting in?" "No," said his know ledgeable son, in Scout hat, "that's to keep the Scouts in"! DIRECT TELECAST EACH DAY Melbourne Television Station ÂTV Channel 0, is conducting a direct telecast of the Jamboree each day. The telecast is from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and its main purpose is showing the people of Melbourne the activities which are taking place on the arena. As arena activities don't start until 2.30 p.m. they have 1.5 hours in which they are willing to televise any suitable acts contributed by boys in the camp. If you can help, please report to the van or the Press Tent which is situated behind the Administration hut in Frankston Drive. NSW HISTORY PAGEANT The New South Wales Contingent display on the arena was a pageant of their State's history. The arena was surrounded by boys in the shape of their home State. Thé nine areas of N.S.W. each arranged one scene of the display. The nine scenes which were vital in the history of New South Wales were: Captain Cook, the Landing of Governor Phillip, the Convict Days, the Discovery of Gold in Bathurst, the Bushranging Days, the Explorers Burke and Wills, the Expansion of the Agricultural Industry, the History of the Two World Wars, and, lastly, the multi-million pound Snowy Mountains Scheme. The commentary which was read during the display was largely taken from official documents. The most interesting ones were Scott at the South Pole, the Great War, the formation of the Wolf Cubs, the opening of Sydney Harbor Bridge, the start and finish of World War il and, lastly, the most important in our minds at the moment, the 7th Australian Jamboree. The discovery of penicillin was depicted by a large syringe which was being jabbed into a boy's arm— the boy making abortive attempts to escape.

CLOSING CEREMONY "Scouts from  overseas and inter-State, who came in as units will join with Victorians formed a mass of boys and men who    acknowledges no other claim than that they are Scouts who hade come together at the 7th Australian Jamboree. Differences of race, color and creed disappear, of course, in any body of Scouts, But after we have had the experience which this Jamboree has given us, we are very ready to acknowledge similarities and to overtook such differences. Thus, after forming up: as sub-camps rather than Contingents, the whole population of this eight-day-old town of 16,000  mingled in â huge spiral in the arena. On stage were the Jamboree Council and each of the Contingent leaders with a boy holding his nation's'flag. Thé Chief Scout, Sir Charles Maclean, accompanied by Sir Edmund Herring, president of the Australian Boy Scouts' Asociation, Mr. Roy Nichols, Australian Commissioner, were present.                                                                                             And Mr. R. W. JtfcKeUar, the Jamboree Camp Clv.ef, will- be received, on their arrival, by Mr. '&. J. Brewster, D.J.C.C., and Mr. Jacoby, A.J.Ç.C. (Activities).                                                                                             Friendship Flag After cheers for Sir Charles, the Jamboree Camp Chief will inaugurate the Australian.Flag of Friendship. He will ask the Chief Commissioner for Australia to accept this fiag on its handsome mountain ash pole, and to arrange for its transfer to the care of the State which will host each future Australian Jamboree. The Australian Commisioner will present the flag to the leader of the Queensland Contingent so that they, Queensland, may hold it until the Jamboree in 1968. Under Sir Charles Macean's leadership the Jamoree will then be formally closed". TREE PLANTED "The Governor and Chief Scout of Tasmania (Sir Charles Gairdner) planted a tree at the Jautboree to mark his visit. He was guest of honor at.the arena display and watched the Tasmanian contingent perform a reenactment of the landing at Port Phillip in the early 19th century by Tasmanians. He also watched Victorian scouts demonstrate in full costume the Relief of Mafeking, a tribute to the courageous stand made by Baden Powell in the Boer War. He was taken round the Tasmanian contingents by the Chief Commissioner (Mr. Graham Hall) and inspected the gateways and camping equipment of the Tasmanian Scouts: Like the other tours of inspection by Chief Scouts during the week Sir Charles walked through,the camp with an air of informality. He stopped at thé tents he came to and questionèd the hardy camp dwellers. He was entertained at lunch by the Jamboree officials and had tea with Tasmanian officials. Late one night he visited a Tasmanian Scout in hospital". LOST PROPERTY! "Then there were the two small Scouts trudging up Frankston Drive, who came abreast of the Lost Property tent. Said one to the other: "Lets' go in and claim a sheathknife."

(Above)  Reenactment Display (from  Rose Bay Scouts movie)