{"id":1282,"date":"2016-01-01T01:11:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T01:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2016-01-02T10:27:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T10:27:02","slug":"australia-trip-for-17-fiji-scouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"Australia trip for 17 Fiji Scouts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/covut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/covut-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"covut\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1283\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/covut-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/covut.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>LUISA Nacoke, 14, is the lone female Scout from Fiji who will be in Sydney to celebrate New Year&#8217;s Day and attend the Australian Jamboree next month.<\/p>\n<p>She is a part of the 17- member local contingent leaving this week to participate at the jamboree at Cataract Park in New South Wales from January 2-17.<\/p>\n<p>During the farewell ceremony at the Fiji Scouts Association office in Suva yesterday, Nacoke said she was excited about the trip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to thank my school community, parents and all who have helped make this trip possible. I can&#8217;t wait to meet other Scouts from other countries, participate in the activities and have fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another Scout, Waisale Tora, 12, who attended the farewell event with his mother said the jamobree would also mark his first trip overseas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For this trip my family did a small fundraising program and all my relatives gave money. It was a bit hectic but worth it in the end because this will be my first trip overseas with fellow Scouts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Fiji Scouts Association, this trip is significant as the last Fiji contingent to attend the jamboree was in 1934.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the association also launched the new scarf design that would be worn by Scouts at the jamboree.<\/p>\n<p>The contingent left last night for Viseisei Village in Vuda where they were hosted before flying to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>While in Australia the Fijian community in Sydney will host them.<\/p>\n<p>Among highlights of their Australia trip is a trip to the Sydney Harbour Bridge to watch the fireworks that will mark New Year&#8217;s celebration at midnight.<br \/>\nSource: Fiji Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUISA Nacoke, 14, is the lone female Scout from Fiji who will be in Sydney&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[7,18,5,9,10],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/covut.jpg",500,317,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/covut-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/covut-300x190.jpg",300,190,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/covut.jpg",500,317,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/covut.jpg",500,317,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/covut.jpg",500,317,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/covut.jpg",500,317,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/covut.jpg",500,317,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/covut.jpg",500,317,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/covut.jpg",480,304,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Uncategorized","tag_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}