The first Presidential Tour took place in 1950, when Mr. Leslie Turner, accompanied by the then Secretary, Major Maitland, visited the South African Branch Headquarters in Johannesburg and the Sections of that Branch in Cape Town and Durban. This visit was at the invitation of the Branch, which by then had been established fourteen years. That the visit was a success is evident by the invitation from the Branch that a second Presidential visit be made. The invitation was accepted and in 1957 Mr. and Mrs. J. Guthrie Brown visited Rhodesia, Kenya and the Union of South Africa.
Lt.-Colonel G. W. Kirkland