LABOURING LORD

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1934, Page 3

LABOURING LORD

EARL’S HEIR AND 45S A WEEK “I AM TRYING.TO MAKE GOOD” f LONDON, July 4. Receiving a wage of 45s a week', Lord Nass, son-and heir of the -eighth Earl of Mayo, has undertaken a job as labourer on new buildings at Croydon, London. Still wearing a cloth cap and in liis shirt-sleeves, Lord Nass, who is 43, and unmarried, related, at the end of a day’s work,, adventures that preceded his present occupation. No one on the job at Croydon knew who Lord Nass. was,' and be added, “In fact, I have almost forgotten myself what it’s like to be called ‘my. lord,’ ” “Here,” Lord Nass stated, “I am registered- with mv employers as- Uliek Henry Bourke and everyone knows me as Bourke.

“Until I got this job I had donepractically nothing since, I.last returned from Kenya, two and a, half years ago. 1 do- not think I would go so far as to sav that I am really happy in the job, but it means about 45s a week, and that keeps; me going. I have a single room at- a house in St, George’s Square. There I have gathered around me the clothes and the sports gear that. 1 don’t suppose I'shall want again.” , Lord Nass spoke of his education, at. Uppingham, School. He was, he explained, intended for the Army, bur changed his mind and went to Ivehya to run a cofFee plantation. Soon afterwards the war broke out, and he served in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and the King’s African Rifles. After -the war lie worked for two periods ih Kenya, and returned .toy England in 1931. '

“For two and a half years,” Lord. Nass concluded. “I just scraped around, , and then I saw that hands were wanted for this .job, I went- along and was engaged, and now I’m trying to make good. tile human race in their relations to one another.”