Scouting in Tasmania

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caption = Scouts Australia Logo
name = Scouts Australia
headquarters =
country = Australia
f-date = 1908
founder = Lord Baden Powell
members = 84 000 [ [http://www.apr.scout.or.jp/countries/australia.htm WOSM Asia-Pacific Region] Accessed 14 December, 2006 ]
chiefscout = Michael Jeffery [http://www.scouts.com.au/main.asp?iStoryID=734 Chief Scout] Accessed, 14 December 2006 ]

Scouting in Tasmania is predominantly represented by the branch of Scouts Australia in the State of Tasmania, Australia. There is also representation by the Baden-Powell Scouts' Association, which was founded in May 1984 in Tasmania, and a little later independently in Adelaide, South Australia.

Scouts Australia in Tasmania is organised around several Scout Districts:-

*Clarence
*Hellyer
*Huon
*Kingborough
*Launceston Tamar
*Launceston North
*Leven
*Mersey
*North Midlands
*Wellington
*West Coast

and a District for Distant Groups.

The main adult training centre is the Lea Scout Centre, 8 km from Hobart. It also houses the Branch Headquarters and the Tasmanian Scout Heritage Centre opened in 1997. There are several other Activity Centres throughout the State.

History of Scouting in Tasmania

Captain Dennis Colbron Pearse, who was Assistant Commandant at the Humshaugh Camp in 1908, the first Scout Camp, moved in 1922 to Tasmania and was involved in Scouting there for the rest of his life. In 1922, he was Publicity Manager for Scouting in Tasmania. In 1926 he was Assistant Chief Commissioner and welcomed Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, to the island as part of the founder's tour of Australia. [ [http://www.scouting.milestones.btinternet.co.uk/biogs-P-R.htm#colbron Scouting Milesones Biographies - Dennis Colbron Pearse] ] .

There has been a Hobart Gang Show from 1957 to 1969 and from 1991 to the present.http://www.gangshow.com/hobart/ Hobart Gang Show] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.tas.scouts.com.au/ Scouts Australia (Tasmania) Branch web pages]