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Shannon News, 16 February 1923, Page 3

Trooper Clutha Mackenzie, ex-M.P., formerly of the Wellington Mounted Rifles, mounted on the black mare Bess (presented by Masterton in 1014 and used by Colonel Powles in Egypt, Palestine, France, Belgium and England, was one of the three Main Body horses brought back to New Zealand in 1920), will serve as the New Zealand model l'or a monument to be erected at the point'where Suez Canal enters the Mediterranean, to the Australian and New Zealand mounted men who saw service in, Egypt and Palestine. A magnificent site has been given by the Port Said authorities, and the central figures are to be two troopers, one of the Australian Light Horse and- the other of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, looking eastwards over the canal and the Sinai desert. . Although there are five or six cheese factories within a radius of five miles of Carterton, several of the local storekeepers (have been without cheese for several days, and state they are unable to purchase any.