FATHER OF ALDERSHOT TATTOO

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 177, 29 July 1932, Page 3

FATHER OF ALDERSHOT TATTOO

RESIGNING FROM THE ARMY. Afajor-General J. C. Harding New man, who was in charge of administra tion Aldershot Command from 1927 to 1930, and had much to do with making the Aidershot Torchlight Tattoo the great, spectacle it. is in these days, has sent in his papers, with a request to be placed on the retired list. The general, who is a colonel of the Essex Regiment, said recently. “T.vo years ago I had a difference of opin ion with others at Aldershot over tho Tattoo, which 1 had run for four years. It concerned the methods of traffic for the car parks, which the Royal Auto mobile Club conducted under our diroc tion. 1 have disagreed with seniors about an arrangement important* to al army organisation, and have resigned. “The Tattoo is now a much bigger affair than when I was first associated with it, and it has developed into a national show. It involves an inirm n.-' amount of work and organisation. I hope its present success will continue.” General Harding Newman is 58, and served with great distinction in the South African and European wars.