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The Gisborne Photo News

 

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Training Course For Scouts

A Sandford Training Course for Scout Patrol Leaders and Boy Scouts was held recently in Gisborne when 30 pupils from the East Coast district, Tokomaru Bay to Wairoa, spent a weekend receiving instruction from Field Commissioner Albert Pitts (Auckland), assisted by District Scoutmaster Phil May and District Quarter-Master Jack Preddey.

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Demonstrating their Lifting Gate are (left to right) ----- ------- (Wairoa), Richard Craddock (Te Karaka), Bob Sheldrake (Gisborne), Alan Scragg (Tolaga Bay) and Michael Brown (Gisborne).

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Ken Wilson (Te Karaka) lays it on with the maul.

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Peter Riddell (Gisborne) looks on as two team mates bury a "dead man" for a Monkey Bridge.

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District Q.M. Jack Preddey, Field Commissioner Albert Pitts, District Scoutmaster Phil May, and District Commissioner F. T. Swindell.

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Top boys on Stilt Tower are David Sloan and Ian Stichbury (Gisborne). Beneath, are Ben Hadfield (Tokomaru Bay) and a friend. At right are Ronald Bayley (Te Karaka) and Fergus Campbell (Wairoa).

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No course would be complete without a Breeches Buoy. Here it is ridden (above) by Mr Pitts and (below) by Mr Swindell.

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Helping to build a "Loop & Hoo" bridge are Terry Moles and Basil Davoren (Gisborne) and Vivian Ruru (Tolaga Bay).