LEGISLATOR’S TRAGIC END

Evening Star, Issue 18669, 25 June 1924, Page 5

LEGISLATOR’S TRAGIC END

DEATH OF MR W. S, ROYCE. WILLING TO ACCEPT TASMANIAN GOVERNORSHIP. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. June 23. Mr W. S. Boyce, Labor member of the House of Commons for the Holland-vvitb-Baaston seat, who died in London to-day on top of a bus while on his way to Westminster, started life as apprentice to a builder. At the age of eighteen he went to South Africa, where he eventually liecame managing director of the Transvaal Engineering and Contracting Company. Returning to England, he twice fought the Holland Division first as a Unionist in 1910. and as a Laboritc in 1918. He was a huge land owner in the Spalding district. Mr Boyce was returning after consulting his wife and friends regarding the (lovernorship of Tasmania. It is understood that he intended to notify Mr Thomas of his acceptance.—A. and N.Z. and Router Cable.s. [lt was reported previously, on the authority of the ‘ Daily Mail,’ that a prominent Socialist had been offered the (lovernorship of Tasmania, and that he was falling lime to consider whether ho had sidficie.nt private means to allow him to entertain fittingly.]