SMALL BUT GOOD

NZ Truth, Issue 1052, 21 January 1926, Page 6

SMALL BUT GOOD

DAPPER, breezy, and small of stature, Captain Smallhorn might possibly have been a head-line [, comedian had he so chosen, but Des- ! tiny ruled that he should be a highly- , valued servant of the Commonwealth Government, and just now he is m the ; full glare of the limelight as Commis- ■ aioner of the Australian Court at Durredin's blfe. Exhibition. The genial littfc. man was born m 1 Hobart, but m 1900 he hit out for M«l- --' bourne to enter the Prime Minist&. % s 1 department and eight years later was sent Home to be private secretary to the High Commissioner for twelve I months. When the American fleet visited • Australia m. 1908 he was responsible '■ for the Press arrangements m connection with that historic event, and the Commonwealth Government's entertainments for the Prince of Wales were supervized by him. Over a big stretch of years he has been associated with the administrative side of the Northern Territory and, m company with .Ministers, has twice visited that wild but wonderful belt of country. When the Great War rocked the world he linked up as a private With the A.I.F. and at the end of three and a half years came ' home with the rank of captain.