RETIRED OFFICER REAPPOINTED.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10764, 11 May 1911, Page 4

RETIRED OFFICER REAPPOINTED.

ECHO OF THE BOER WAR SCANDAL.

:[JBr Electric TELEGRAPH^GbrYrjanT.] v ; • '■- ■- • T - ■' (Per Press Association.) [Received May ll J i ;akjßjSio>- n i.vv .'"■•' "■■■.■■■■■ iJJaiiaim, May 10. In the House of Commons, in reply •to~Cajptain P. A. Clive, Mr F. D. •Acland, Financial Secretary to the War Office, stated, tthat :',the,- first holder of the new office of messing adviser to the War Office at a salary of £3OO per annum would be Colonel Morgan, a retired officer. He further explained in reply to an additional question that Colonel Morgan had been invited to. retire as the result of; the Butler Committee and the finding of the Royal Commission which was appointed at the close of the Boer war. No corruption had been found against Colonel Morgan, who was only guilty of undoubted culpability under army regulations, but as he was a very "able man and better qualified than anypne else to do the : work there was no reason why he should not be employed. Captain Clive: Are not there others qualified who have not been found in anv way culpable.—(Cheers.) Mr F. D. Acland: No, that is exactly" the point.—(lronical Opposition laughter.) Colonel Morgan is an officer of exceptional ability, and it is felt that he can do the work better than anyone else.

[Colonel Hill Godfrey Morgan, C.B. 1902; D.S.O. 1896; h. 20 June, 1862; s.of late Captain Hill Faulconer Morgan, 28th Foofc Joined Ist Gloucestershire Regiment (28th) from Militia (1883) as a lieutenant and transferred to Army Service Corps, 1888 as Captain; Major, 1898; served Dongola Expeditionary Force, 1896-8 (despatches, D.5.0., 4th class Medjidie, British medal, Khedive's medal with two clasps); Nile expedition, including Khartoum (despatches, 4th class Osmanieh, clasp); Director of Supplies, Natal, 1899-1900, and Director of Supplies, South Africa, 1900-2 (despatches five times, Brevet Lieut.-Col., Queen's medal, six clasps, King's medal, two clasps, C.8.); Lieut.-Col. 1904; BrevetCol. 1906; retired, 1906.]