WATELER PEACE PRIZE
AWARD TO CHIEF SCOUT SERVICES RECOGNISED THE HAGUE, July 8 The Wateler Peaco Prize for 1937, valued at £2IOO, has been awarded to Lord Baden-Powell for services toward international understanding through the medium of the Boy Scout movement.
Lord Baden-Powell was born in 1857. Ho entered the Army and came into prominence for his gallant defence of Mafeking in the course of the Boer War in 1899-1900. Ho founded the Boy Scout and Girl Guide organisa-
tions in 1908 to promote good citizenship, and has written many books about scouting. Ho was created a baron in 1929. Tho ■ Wateler Peaco Prize was founded by M. Wateler, a Dutch subject, who died at The Hague, leaving his property to the Carnegie Foundation appointed by tho Dutch Government as a governing body for the Palace of Peace which Andrew Carnegie built at The Hague. The property was left on condition that tho annual incomo should bo used as a peace prize to bo awarded to tho person "who had rendered tho most valuable services to tho causo of peace, or had contributed to finding means of combating war."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22777, 10 July 1937, Page 15
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189WATELER PEACE PRIZE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22777, 10 July 1937, Page 15
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