THE HON. A. DAVEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 78, 2 April 1923, Page 4

THE HON. A. DAVEY.

HOLIDAY BOUND FOR ENGLAND SURVIVOR OF QUBENLAND COUNCIL Looking in the best of health, the Hon. A. Davev. accompanied by Mrs. Davcy. is aboard 'the Makura en route to Vancouver, on a combined business and pleasure tour to England and the Continent. He expects to spend a month in Canada, and will lie absent from Australia for about twelve months. Mr. Davev is an old resident of Queensland, having spent the past forty-two years of his life in the land of hi? adoption, and the greater part of that time in the Noi-th of Queensland. He was for fifteen years a member of the abolished Legislative Council of Queensland, and is long term of office entitled him to retain the title of Honourable, together with some half-dozen other members who had served on the Legislative Council for more than ten years. He wa* now managing director for the boot manufacturing firm of Davev, Halliday and Co., Ltd.. of Brisbane. Referring to the prospects of t-he general election to he held in Queensland early in May. he said that there was a good prospect of the present Labour Government being defeated and the National party get-ting back to power.