 In 1939, St. Enoch's BSA unit goes independent as the Blue Boy Scouts.On 31 August 1932, the AIBS signed an agreement with the BSA of Australia to merge.In 1942, Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, The Governor of Queensland, resigned as Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association, Queensland Branch due to the failure of the BSA to respond to his call for reforms to its centralisation effort that led to the severance of the Blue Boy Scouts' tie to the BSA.