IN AND OUT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 March 1925, Page 7

IN AND OUT.

ENGLAND’S PRIME MINISTER

LABOUR’S ADVENTURE

AN AMUSING ACCOUNT,

(By Telegraph.—Special to Star.) WELLINGTON, March 30

Malcolm MacDonald, a son of the Former Labour Prime Minister of England, described to a Wellington audience the family residential changes consequent on the precarious tenure of office. “You see in me one of the survivors, an insignificant one, perhaps, of a great adventure, that of the first Labour Government in Britain,” he remarked. “By a sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, we found ourselves leaving our house in Hampstead to take up the somewhat precarious occupation at No. 10 Downing Street. When we arrived we desired to make the beds, but we were afraid to sleep in them because, as far as we could see then, the Labour Government would not last until next morning. We saw, however, that it would last/for a few days at least. 'We. sent to Hampstead for changes ol clothes. (Laughter). That was the existence we led for nine months, and when we were just about to move in the pictures we had to get out. Things were moving oolitically, however, and although the furniture vans just now are somewhat definitely dismissed, during the next eight years I am quite sure they -will be needed again to move us back, bagpipes and all, to No. 10. (Loud laughter) .