POLITICIAN FOR 26 YEARS.

Auckland Star, Volume 23, Issue 23, 28 January 1926, Page 9

POLITICIAN FOR 26 YEARS.

NOW INMATE OF HOME. LABOUR STALWART'S END. [From Our Own Correspondent.) I SYDNEY, January 22. The saddest spectacles of political life are provided by those men who, having devoted themselves to politics, are unable to maintain themselves by any other means when they are placed in the discard. To the increasing number of such men has been added the name of the Hon. \V. O. Archibald, politician since 1893, and one-time Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Trade and Customs. He is now an inmate of the Salvation Army Home in Pirie Street, Adelaide. He asked for accommodation there recently, and the Army, understanding the case, took him in. "I should like to be back in harness again," he told an interviewer, "but I am afraid I am not active enough. Parliament is now fully representative of the people. Tt is composed of both rogues and honest men." "For m.yself, I am at home here — happy and hopeful for the future." Hon. William Oliver Archibald was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly in 1893 for Port Adelaide. He held the seat until be retired in 1910. and during that time was Leader of the State Labour party for three years. He entered the House of Representatives for Hindmarsh in ]PlO, and was a member of the Parliamentary party that visited England for King George's" Coronation. In 1914 he became Minister of Home Affairs in the Fisher Government, and in November. 1910, was Minister of Trade and Customs, which position he held until February of the following year. He was defeated at the general election in 1919.