A KHAKI GIANT.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2714, 8 March 1916, Page 6

A KHAKI GIANT.

The biggest man in uniform here at present is Lance-Corporal Newman, of Gisborne, at present a member of the Military Police on city duty. It is not often that a man's size stands in the way of enlistment, but in the case of this man, who applied for enlistment in tlio Army Service Corps (being a motor lorry lie was passed by until he at length volunteered for the infantry, and even now he has been given ta understand that lie will not bo sent to the firing line, probably owing, to the limitation in depth of tho firing trenches. Lance-Corporal Newman, who is only 28 years of age, is 6ft. 7Jin. in his bare feet, and to show what sort of condition he is in, only scales 15 stone stripped. As there were no stock uniforms, boots, etc., to fit him in tho Defence Stores lie had to be especially fitted out. He takes size 12 in hoots and has a reach like Jess AVillard, the champion heavyweight boxer. The big man served eloven years in tho volunteers at Hokitika, and sinco he has been in Gisborne he has been driving a motor lorry for Mr. John Sheridan, and was the only man capable of loading his own lorry with casks of cement, (eacli of which weighs 3361b.).