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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 13

CELEBRITY SHUNS PUBLICITY

VETERAN OF THE GREAT IVAR.

Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, is known for his hatred of publicity, but less so for bis unorthodoxy in dress. Instead of wearing the cut-away coat, striped trousers and “stove pipe” of the traditional London city man, he prefers a business suit, a turn-down collar and a broad-brimmed felt hat. In this dress, it is recorded, he was strolling through the bank one day when a new and enqrgctic clerk said to him, “This i~ no place for a walk. Be so good as to get out I”

Mr. John McGee, the oldest soldier to fight in the British armies during-the war. has died at MonzO, Northern Rho? desia. , He was nearly 100 years old. When volunteering for service in East Africa in 1914 he unblushingly gave his age as 37. Mr. McGee was allowed to accompany the Rhodesian troops, and it is. recorded that he took part in several ‘‘warin’’ skirmishes, but after a year he was invalided out of the army. He settled in Northern Rhodesia, and at the time of bis death he was living on a farm presented to him by Sir Starr Jamieson.

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