NEW COMMISSIONER OF SCOUTS APPOINTED
The Boy Seouts' Association has announeed the appointment of Mr. H. Seddon Hills, of Lower Hutt, as the Dominion Headquarters Commissioner in New Zealand. Mr. Hills was a Scoutmaster in 1909 and Chief Scoutmaster and District Secretary in the Bay of Plenty area during r910-l'9:12, being actively engaged in Scouting- in Taumarunui in later years. He was also Group Scoutmaster at Whangarei, and subsequently District Scoutumaster and -^District 'Commissioner for that area, More recently he has been associated with the committee of the St. Jarnes Group, Lower Hutt, and in 1943 was appointed acting-County Commissioner for the Hutt Valley and Bays County during the absenee oh military service of the County Commissioner. He is an eleeted meniber of the Dominion Council of the Association, and was appointed Assistant Dominion Headquarters Commissioner in May of this year. In his new post, his duties will include general oversight of the administration of the (Scout movement. Mr. Hills is well known as the president .of the Hutt Valley Y.M.C.A., and as a senior officer of the Public Wloi'ks Department.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5285, 23 December 1946, Page 4
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181NEW COMMISSIONER OF SCOUTS APPOINTED Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5285, 23 December 1946, Page 4
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