COLONEL NEWALL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 61, 12 November 1913, Page 4

COLONEL NEWALL.

Constabulary duty is no now experience for Colonel Stuart Newall, C. 8., whom the Government lias entrusted with the responsible task of commanding she mounted specials at Wellington, the "Lvttelton Times" reminds

u-. Colonel Ncwall had some years of military service during the Maori war in Taranaki, the Urewera Country, Taupo and oilier parts of the Hauhau country, and on the conclusion of the hostilities he was employed for more than ten years in Armed Constabulary duty. The "AAV farce in the North Island was then several hundreds strong, and. while i: was military in organisation and drill, it had to combine with its soldierly work the functions now fulfilled by the civil police in the country districts. The detachments stationed in the Waikato and Taranaki and in other parts of the island where the .Maoris were numerous and not altogether friendly did a great deal of useful work making roads through the unsettled and newly settled country. In the early seventies Colonel Xewall, then a sub-

inspector of the forte-, constructed with his men a good road through the great swamp which lay between Cantbridge and Rangiawhia, in-the ' ,per Waikato, and for an excellent military map of the frontier district be received the special thanks of the CxQVQCnment and a gold watch. Late" on be

lad charge of the preserva;in of pearo in the Ohinemuri district when that

country was opened up ;or gold-min-ing, ami when the uncertain temper of the Maoris and the gold-h MPnj; enterprise of the whites often Jed to embarrassing disagreements. * His Inst important field duty in the eld 'A.C." force was in 1881, whin be eeld a command in the celeb-i'tecl "raid" on Parihaka, when Te Whiti and Toh.u were arrested. Colonel Newall's more recent servve in South Africa, was rewarded with the honor of a military C.B.