RETURN FROM ABROAD
BOY SCOUTS’ SECRETARY. INTERNATIONAL RELIEF WORK. Messrs. Denis Mackisack and Gerald Strickland returned from England by the Dominion Monarch last week, after service overseas in the Navy and later, after VJ Day, with the Scout International Relief Service (5.1.R.5.) in Germany, under the British Red Cross Commission. After several months atWarendorf, nea r Munster, their team, of which Mr. Mackisack was the team leader, took over from an UNNRA team the control of an Assembly Centre consisting of three Polish displaced persons’ camps and a hospital at Leverkusen, near Cologne. It is interbesting .to.note. that the UNNRA District Director in this area was also a ‘ New Zealander, Brigadier T. J. King, formerly of Wellington. Messrs. Mackisack and Strickland were the Zealanders engaged in the WSpPof the S.T.R.S. in Europe.
Mr. Mackisack, who was formerly Scoutmaster of St. James’s Scout Troop until he joined the services in * June, 1942, has been appointed fulltime secretary to the Hutt Valley and Bays Scout County, and will take up his duties shortly.
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Hutt News, Volume 20, Issue 14, 4 September 1946, Page 7
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