Scouts Honour (Wellington) Traditional Cache
Scouts Honour (Wellington)
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Nearly a drive by cache. Short walk up (100m) from the Greenmeadows
reserve sign. Walk up the path to the Hall
This is our first cache hide. Nice and local.
Location of the Pukerua Bay Scout Hall. Formerly known as the Atlantic Hall.
Sit and enjoy the view from the reserve bench. Looking back down the valley to Plimmerton & Porirua.
Park on the roadside at the cul-de-sac near the Greenmeadows reserve sign. (please don't drive your vehicle up the drive to the hall as turning may be a problem and will arouse suspisicion)
The reserve has swings for the kids and is dog friendly. There are soccer fields on the lower grounds and on some nights the Hall is either held for the cub nights or the Hall can be rented out for private functions.
The cache is a 400ml Sistema container which was won as a prize at the Robin Hood's rescue cache event in March 2009
***PLEASE PLACE THE CACHE BACK EXACTLY WHERE YOU FOUND IT***
History of the Hall
The PukeruaBay Scout Group was established in 1941 by Mr Claude Love (Pukerua Bay Primary School Golden Jubilee 1927-1977). After World War II they met in the Home Guard huton Mr Reg Wall’s Mt Welcome (now Kerehoma) farm. 1945 photographs show Mr Wall talking to the scouts about native plant identification. Over the years the group has included Cubs and Venturers and subsequently became a SeaScout group. Many boys have gained Queen Scout and Duke of Edinburgh Awards and attended national and international jamborees. Since becoming a Sea Scout group it acquired a standard sailing boat, a Sunburst yacht, and a South African Dabchick; the group has also and built its own pram dinghy and canoe. The present Scout group includes girls and boys and has 18 Cubs and 12 Scouts. Sea Scouts meet at the facility at the Ngati Toa Domain. The Scout Hall building was originally constructed in 1952 as a volunteer effort by members of the Pukerua Bay RSA on land in Teihana Road donated by prominent local land-owner Charles Gray. For the next dozen years, the hall provided an important local venue for many social activities for the RSA including balls, fairs, Christmas parties and private functions. The changing social patterns of the early 1960s saw use of the hall decline and the RSA down-sized their premises to better meet their needs, moving to the present RSA hall in WairakaRoad. In 1964 the RSA sold the old hall to the Atlantic Oil Company which subsequently gifted it to the scouts in 1965. The building was then relocated in July 1965, with considerable assistance from the local community, to its present site in Kotipu Place adjacent to the Greenmeadows Reserve and named the Atlantic Hall in honour of its donors. It was formally re-opened on 12 February 1966 by Mr R.F. Blackmore. The building was spruced up by the Scouts in 1973, and subsequently (ca. 1980s) the alterations to the street front were made. The building remains in Scouts use to the present day.
When first hidden the cache contained:
A log book, pencil & sharpener
A ballbearing puzzle
A funky Dice
A light up magnifing glass
And a Danish Geo Coin
Park at S 41 02.360 E 174 52.877
no bush bashing required
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
#1 Rirel pnpur fubhyq fgneg jvgu n tbbq 'sbhaqngvba'
#2 EUP. Va, Nebhaq & Hc