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NEW CHIEF SCOUT

LORD SOMERS APPOINTED FORMER GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA WORLD TITLE LAPSES. Lord Somers is to be the new Chief Scout, a 8.8. C. broadcast states, in succession to the late Lord Baden-Powell. Lord Somers, who was Governor of Victoria from 1926 to 1931 and acting-GovA’nor-General of Australia 1930-31, has been Deputy Chief Scout for Great Britain since 1936. He will now be Chief Scout for Groat Britain. No new appointment is to be made to the position of World Chief Scout held by the late Lord Baden-Powell. Lord Somers is 53 years of age and won the D.S.O. and the M.C. in the 1914-18 war.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1941, Page 4

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107

NEW CHIEF SCOUT Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1941, Page 4

NEW CHIEF SCOUT Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1941, Page 4

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