MEDAL OF MERIT
Scoutmaster Honoured His Excellency the Governor-General, acting in bis capacity of Dominion Chief Scout, has awarded the Boy Scouts’ Association Medal of Merit to Alfred William Allsop, district scoutmaster of the North Wairarapa Scout District, for his good services to the movement. Mr. Allsop has spent 25 years with the movement both in England and in New Zealand, and has left the mark of his personality on 'many hundreds ot boys who have passed through his hands. A number of these boys trained by Mr. Allsop are at present overseas with the armed forces. On one occasion, during the acute shortage of scoutmasters, Mr. Allsop acted as scoutmaster of four different troops, so that they should not go out of existence through lack of help.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 7, 3 October 1944, Page 3
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128MEDAL OF MERIT Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 7, 3 October 1944, Page 3
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