[3] In 1954 Scott was chairman of National's Rodney electorate committee when Clifton Webb was appointed to the job of high commissioner to the United Kingdom.

He even went as far as to personally appeal to Prime Minister Sidney Holland to delay Webb's appointment to London until after the election.

As minister he became the unpopular face of the "heavy handed" government when it moved to stop radio broadcasts from beyond the three-mile limit in international waters.

Personally Scott was loath to intervene, believing a national government should be on the side of private enterprise, but was overruled in cabinet.

He also confessed that he burnt a Marine Department report proposing to arrest the broadcasters stating "I wasn't going to use those sort of dirty tricks on them.

[2] He then sold his farm after refusing to continue paying $20,000 in rates on 160 acres to the Waitemata City Council which he deemed to be an excessive amount.