Arthur Wellesley Vivian Reeve MBE (2 December 1912 – 21 May 2002) was a New Zealand author and The Scout Association of New Zealand’s international commissioner who was awarded the Bronze Wolf Award for exceptional services to Scouting.
Arthur Reeve | |
|---|---|
| Born | Arthur Wellesley Vivian Reeve 2 December 1912 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Died | 21 May 2002 (aged 89) Wellington, New Zealand |
| Occupation | Post office employee, author, international scout commissioner |
| Notable works | Cradle of Rugby (1992) |
| Notable awards | MBE, Scouting Bronze Wolf Award |
| Spouse |
Jacqueline Lorraine Taylor
(m. 1944) |
| Children | Three |
Personal life
editReeve was born in Auckland[1] on 2 December 1912, the son of Ethel Mary Whitta and her husband Benjamin Alfred Reeve.[2] He was educated at Eastbourne and West Christchurch Primary Schools.[1] He married Jacqueline Lorraine Taylor on 5 February 1944, at St Matthew's Church, in the Wellington suburb of Brooklyn,[3] and they had three children.[1] He was involved in the Masonic Lodge and St Matthew’s Church in Brooklyn, Wellington.[4] He became chairman of the Wellington branch of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society.[5] He died in Wellington on 21 May 2002 from cancer.[1]
Working life
editReeve joined the New Zealand government Post and Telegraph Department as a telegram delivery boy in 1929.[1] He retired from the New Zealand Post Office in 1971, as its assistant principal public relations officer.[1] He had been involved in the organisation of international conferences in Wellington, including for SEATO, the Colombo Plan, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, and the Pacific Basin Economic Council in 1972.[1]
Scouting
editReeve was a scout in the St Matthew's Scout Group [6] in Christchurch in 1926. He later became its scoutmaster.[citation needed] He resigned from St Matthew's Scout Group in 1936 (letter dated 11 December 1936 in the troop log book)[citation needed] but kept in contact and visited the group.[citation needed]
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Scout Association of New Zealand
editThe Boy Scouts Association (New Zealand Branch) appointed him as a district scoutmaster, commissioner for Pacific Island Scouting and international commissioner. It presented Reeve with its Silver Wolf Award, and its highest award, its Silver Tui.[1]
In the 1978 New Year Honours, Reeve was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to scouting.[7]
In 1979, The World Organization of the Scout Movement presented Reeve with its highest award, its Bronze Wolf Award, awarded in recognition of "outstanding service by an individual to the World Scout Movement".[8][9]
Rugby
editReeve was an avid follower of rugby union, and a life member of the Wellington Rugby Football Union. He donated a trophy, the Arthur Reeve Cup, which is contested in the Wellington Secondary Schools rugby competition in the under-80 kg grade. It was first awarded in 1989.
After injuring his leg playing rugby at 19, he joined the Scottish Harriers, and was elected vice president.
Reeve was a rugby columnist for over 23 years for Rugby News and then the Sunday Times. He wrote a history of college rugby, Cradle of Rugby, published in 1992.[10][11]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h Kitchin, Peter (30 May 2002). "Scouting, junior rugby a passion". The Evening Post. p. 7.
- ^ "Birth search: registration number 1912/16610". Births, deaths & marriages online. Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ "Marriage". The Evening Post. 5 April 1944. p. 1. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ "Arthur Reeve dies, aged 89". The Dominion. 25 May 2002. p. 58.
- ^ The Evening Post 27 June 1977 & 17 March 1980.
- ^ "St. Matthew's LLO Scout Group | Scouting in Christchurch, New Zealand". Stmatts.co.nz. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ "No. 47420". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 31 December 1977. p. 43.
- ^ "The Bronze Wolf / History / Facts & Figures / About Scouting / Home - World Organization of the Scout Movement". Archived from the original on 17 October 2009. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
- ^ "List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award". Scout.org. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ REEVE, ARTHUR W.V. & MCCONNELL, LYNN, Cradle of Rugby : The History of New Zealand College Rugby. Lower Hutt, Inprint, 1992. (ISBN 0864641753)
- ^ "Palmerstonnorth". Ipac.citylibrary.pncc.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 21 April 2016.