More Info →Scouts building Ruapehu Lodge and Snow School

Description

Located at the top of Bruce Road on Mount Ruapehu, this Scout lodge was built in 1984 and is used as the base for Scouts Snow School.

Building Contractor Keith Malcolm was the New Zealand Scouts Area Commissioner for Rangitane area, which ran from Featherston to Norsewood on the east coast and Otaki to Waverley on the west coast. He was Chairman of the organising committee and Camp Chief during this Jamboree. The Manawatu Evening Standard reported on 5 January 1984, "He's the man who for two years has been in charge of a team of hundreds of workers preparing the jamboree site and programme for more than 6000 scouts.” He was awarded an MBE in 1973 and received a City Council Civic Award in 1994.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

2022-58

Date

1971 to 1973

Digitisation id

2023S_2022-58_040295_123

Format

Slide

Held In

"Coolstore"