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.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410130.2.19
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1941, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
107NEW CHIEF SCOUT Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1941, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.