NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22654, 20 August 1935, Page 9

NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL

AUSTRALIAN APPOINTMENT SIR ALEXANDER HORE-RUTHVEN HOBART, August 19. Mr Lyons announced that the King has appointed Sir Alexander HoreRuthven Governor-General of Australia

in succession to Sir Isaac Isaacs. The date of Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven’s assumption of office will bo announced later. The acceptance in November last by Brigadier-general Sir Alexander HoreRuthven, V.C., of the Governorship of New South Wales, in succession to Sir Philip Game, was welcomed in Australian commercial circles.

Mr R. M. Clark, president of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, said: “Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven proved such a brilliant success in South Australia that commercial people, I think, will greatly appreciate his appointment as Governor of this State.”

Mr C. V. Potts, president of the Chamber of Manufactures, states: “As far as I know, Sir Alexander,Hore-Ruthven was generally liked in South Australia. He was a popular Governor. I think we should congratulate ourselves that he is to be our next Governor.” Dr C. E. W. Bean stated that as a soldier Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven was popular with Australians. During a considerable part of the war, he says, Sir Alexander was Chief of Staff to Genera! Congreve, V.C., of the 7th Corps. When the Australian Divisions were ordered south in March, 1918, to assist in stemming the vigorous German advance towards Amiens, they came into that corps, and it was General Congreve and Brigadier-general Hore-Ruthven who, on the night of March 2C, 1918, gave General Monash and General MacLagan their instructions to place the 3rd and 4th Australian Divisions across the path of the enemy. During the critical time up to and including the battle of Dermancourt, they controlled the Australian troops before Amiens. “ Ex-servicemen are extremely pleased to hear that Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven has been appointed the next Governor of New South Wales,” said Mr L. A. Robb, State president of the Returned Soldiers’ League. “The new Governor is an exserviceman, who was held in great esteem by returned soldiers in South Australia, and he won the respect ot all those with whom he came into contact.”

Brigadier-general Hore-Ruthven, who was born in 1872, commanded the Camel Corps detachment at the battle of Gedaref, in 1899, and in subsequent operations, and won the V.C. He' served in France and Gallipoli in the Great War, and was awarded the D.S.O. and bar, and was mentioned in despatches five times. He was severely wounded at Gallipoli. He was in command of the Welsh Guards from 1920 to 1924. Brigadier-general Hore-Ruthven was military secretary to the GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1908.