“SILVER WOLF” GIVEN

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 184, 3 May 1934, Page 11

“SILVER WOLF” GIVEN

Highest Scout Honour For Wellington Barrister ST. GEORGE’S DAY AWARD It is announced by the Dominion headquarters of the Boy Scout movement, Chrlstchurehj that the followring St. George’s Day award has been made bv Lord Baden Powell of Gilwell, Chief Scout, Imperial Headquarters, London: — To Mr. J. R. Kirk, M.8.E., J. 1., Wellington, chairman of the New Zealand Boy Scout Council, the Honorary Silver Wolf. In addition the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe (Chief Scout for New Zealand), mis mime uw .»..o><’,ug award To Major C. T. Tatum of Manakau, New Zealand, the Honorary Medal of Merit.

Bora and educated at Dunedin, Mr. J. R, Kirk, who has been awarded the highest Scout honour, is a barrister at present in Wellington, where he is uirector of several companies, including the Australian Provincial Assurance Association Ltd. He has been Mayor ot Naseby ami Mayor of Gisborne; deputychairman of the Hawkes Bay Education Board, member of the Royal Commission on Education in 1012, member of the Council 'of Education, and a delegate to Imperial Conferences ou Education in Loudon. He served in France as an oflicer of the New’ ZJealaud Expeditionary Force, being subsequently appointed its first Director of Education, and besides Great War and territorial service medals, he holds the Order of the British Empire and the Montenegran Order of Danilo First. He is an ex-president of the Gisborne branch of the Navy League, and for more than twenty years has been a corresponding secretary of the Royal Empire Society, by the council of which body, in its diamond jubilee year, he was presented with a handsome piece of solid silver plate. He is a Justice of the Peace, a member of the Wellington Philosophical Society, and interests hmiself in the protection of native birds and the preservation of New Zealand forest, being a member of the executive and life member of the Native Bird Society. During the past eight years Mr. Kirk hns been chairman continuously of the Dominion Boy Scout Council, and most active throughout New Zealand and in the interests of scouting, being himself a Rover Scout. He has visited England frequently on behalf of the movement, and ns he travels extensively, is regarded as a liaison officer. His representations to headquarters in London have always been successful, and the interpretations there of Scout law and regulations favourable to New Zealand have been of immense value to the local organisation. Major C. T. Tatum. Manakau. was appointed ;n member of, the Dominion Boy Scout Council twenty-one years ago. During this long period he has energetically assisted the cause of scouting in the Dominion. Inking a special interest in the Sea. Scout branch.