WELCOME HOME.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 138, 13 June 1929, Page 9

WELCOME HOME.

SCOTTISH REJOICING.

Wildest Enthusiasm Greets New

Prime Minister.

LOSSIEMOUTH EN PETE,

(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.)

(Received 11 a.m.)

LONDON, June 12

Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, accompanied by his daughter Ishbel, was tumultuously welcomed at Lossiemouth, his native town. The school children, who were on holiday, cheered and waved flags, trains whistled, and the harbour drifters sounded sirens.

A crowd of women attached ropes to the Prime Minister's car and hauled it in a trimphal procession to the Hillock, accompanied by a band of pipers.

Before poing north'for ten days' rest Mr. Mac Donald declined to make a statement about his suggested visit to Mr. Hoover. He will confer with Mr. Dawes about June 21.

The American Government is stated in high official circles to be greatly gratified at, and ready to welcome, the plan of the Prime Minister, Mr. Mac Donald. to visit the United States to confer with the President, Mr. Hoover, on the relations of the two countries.

TRIUMPHAL JOURNEY.

POLITICAL VIEWS DROPPED

(British Official Wireless.}

(Received 11.30 a.m.)

RUGBY, June 12.

Mr. Mac Donald's journey to Lossiemouth was something of a triumphal procession. At Aberdeen, where he changed trains at 7.30 this morning, hundreds of people on the platform cheered. At every station from Aberdeen to Lossiemouth people raised cheers, which Mr. Mac Donald acknowledged through the window of his carriage.

The everyday life of Lossiemouth was suspended. The whole town turned out to give a rousing welcome to the new Prime Minister. Political opinions were forgotten in the general desire to honour a man who had risen to the highest office in the State, yet retained his love of his native shore and kept his old friendships alive.

Amid cheering by school children the Prime Minister alighted from his train, and was immediately surrounded by a throng of friends, old fishermen and their wives, whose handshakes were most , hearty.

An official reception was held outside the station. In his speech of welcome the Provost said: "May your name go down to posterity as a great Prime Minister who made peace possible among the nations of the earth."

At the end of hi s holiday at Lossie mouth, Mr. MaeDonahl proposes to re turn to London by aeroplane.

LABOUR JUDGE.

Sir H. Slesser Raised To Appeal

Court Bench.

BY-ELECTION SEQUEL

(British Official Wireless.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, June 12. It is officially announced that the King has appointed Sir Henry Slesser, K.C., to be Lord Justice of Appeal in place of Sir John Sankey, who has been appointed Lord Chancellor in the new Labour Government. Sir Henry Slesser was Solici-tor-General in the Labour Government of 1924, and his appointment to the Judgeship creates a Parliamentary vacancy in South East Leeds, where, at the general election, he defeated a Conservative by a majority of 15,000.