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8.1 International Camps promote understanding of the larger world
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Da\"IIl Bloomfiel d,
45 Gri ffith Street,
HEIDELBERG WEST .
If not clatmed within 7 day, plea!;c return
to P.O.. '\1clbourue. Box t924R..
Postage paid imprint, 11sedfor b11lk mail. "PAID AT MELBOURNE 1 V, d 7 DE 1948" and advertising slogan.
Australia's first Pan-Pacific Scout camp was held at Wonga Park,
Melbourne in 1948/ 1949, with participants from many co untries.
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011ly two registered covers are recorded from th e 1930 lllterscout camp i11 liege, Belgium. Most ofthe Sco11ts camped
a few days only, andfew ofthem 11sed the postal facilities. The post office was sit11ated in a small carpenters' workshop.
The international Scout camp 'lnterscout' was a transit camp for visitors attending the exhibitions held in
Liege and Antwerp for the 1OOth anniversary of the independence of Belgium. There were about 800 fore ign
Scouts plus an unknown number of Belgian Scouts attending the camp on an island on the river Meuse.
