Patterson resign from the BSA in 1939 over the BSA centralisation issue and took the 1st Mount Morgan Company with him. In 1942, Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, The Governor of Queensland, resigned as chief scout of 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. Patterson died in 1955 and the company continued independently for another two years until 1957.