CHIEF AIR RAID WARDEN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 11 May 1939, Page 8

CHIEF AIR RAID WARDEN

MR ARTHUR HOWARD Bv Air Mail—Own Correspondentl LONDON. 6th April. Lord Strathcona’s brother, Mr Arthur Howard, has been appointed London’s Chief Air Raid Warden. He is 43. spectacled, and distinctly of the strong silent man order. He was badly wounded with the Scots Guards in the War, has been Mayor of Westminster, and runs a model dairy farm. He is a grandson of the first Lord Strathcona, the unknown young Scot from Forres who became Canada’s railway pioneer. As a youthful journalist I remember Lord Strathcona, arriving one day by boat in Liverpool, and a phalanx of reporters trying vainly to interview him when he stepped down the gangway to the landing stage. He politely but quite firmly declined to utter a word on any current or other topic. . But I tried again, after the others had ■ abandoned him as hopeless, and, talking to him through the window of his ■ ‘ first-class railway coach ih Riverside Station, described the enthusiasm with which Liverpool had greeted Strath- ■ cona’s Horse on their waj' back from F the Boer War. That did it. He beamed through his glasses, and gave me a rattling good column of views on the more or less urgent topics of those distant days.