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St John Cadets' Camp
Twenty-one ambulance cadets, of the Nelson-Marlborough district of St John Ambulance, spent four days at a camp in the Wairoa River Valley, recently. Training in bushcraft, natural history, camping and allied subjects was concluded with an examination for a camping badge. (Photographs: K. A. Watts and K. B. Parker).
The correct method of river crossing was a segment of training
Peeling spuds was a part of regular chores, Taking their turn are Brendon Gibbs and Alan Parker, who also used this job to take their minds off wasp stings they suffered
The cadets and their instructors. At the rear left is Supt. K. B. Parker, who was in charge of the camp
Some of the boys register, at the start of the camp