TOO ROMANTIC

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 70, 19 September 1936, Page 11

TOO ROMANTIC

MR. R. MC KEEN'S CAREER

The article from the) Dundee "People's Journal" (republished yesterday) regarding the romantic rise of Mr. R. 'McKeen, M.P., evidently did not meet with the approval of Mr. McKeen. Two correspondents have forwarded to "The Post" a clipping from /the "People's Journal" of the week foll6wing correcting the main points' in the article. The clipping is .'as follows:

FIFE MINER'S ROMANTIC RISE. Mr. Robert McKeen, a member of the House of Representatives, who worked as a ■ young man in Earlseat Colliery, Fifeshire, and Whose romantic rise'in New Zealand was the subject of ah article in last week's' issue of the "People's Journal," states that he has never aspired to the high office of Prime Minister of New Zealand. "I wish to state in all sincerity," he writes, "that out of the 55 members of my Government I would be the least capable of filling such a ,high position." He points out that the present Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M., J. Savage, retains the unswerving,loyalty of every member of the New Zealand Labour Party, and is regarded as one of the greatest statesmen in the British' Empire today. Mr. McKeen, who is now paying an extended visit to Ireland, also denies that he is to be installed as Lord Mayor of ■ Wellington.