LONDON'S HANDSOME MAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19144, 9 October 1925, Page 5

LONDON'S HANDSOME MAN.

THE NEW CITY MARSHAL. j| V.C. AMONG REJECTEDS. London's new Handsome Man—in other k words, the new City Marshal—is Captain ;] Derek Fitzgerald Massy, late of the Indian | Army, a slim, fair young man of 3i, | six feet in height, and with the appear- 4 ance of a Guards officer. He was elected | at a recent meeting ot the City Corpora- i There were five candidates, but the final f choice rested between Captain Massy and 1 Captain Harry Daniels, V.C.,- M.C., the ft present Assistant Provost Marshal at | Aldershot. At the second ballot, Captain g Massy received 99 votes against Captain j| Daniels* 65, | Called into the Council; chamber and | asked if he wished to thank the Cor- | poration Captain Massy rose to his full sjj six feet and in a ringing voice and best J City toastmaster style said: —" My Lord | Mayor and honourable members of this , >j Council, I thank you very much indeed for fj the very great honour you have conferred ,|i upon me this day. I will do mv very :i----utmost to live up to it. ' II Some regret will no doubt be caused in g feminine circles by the news that Captain I Massy is married. He has two sons, ana « lives at Downe, Kent. All the candidates | looked rather hot in iiiomiri? dress on me J hottest day of the year. Captain Massy |; wore a light-coloured waistcoat, white fe spats, and a pink carnation in his button- | To £ n interviewer, Captain Massy I said' lam very pleased that I have J been successful. My wife will >e g . J too. I was in a cavalry regiment of the. g Indian Army, so lam used to ndtng and | h °OnTof the City Marshal's duti« fs t.7 | ride-in a «6rgeons anifoirm-bttore the | T ord Mavor's coach. A salary of XWJ if| a year attaches to the post, and he gets g a free horsw.