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Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1935, Page 4

The loyalty and deep affection which the British Labour thirty feels for the Royal House was expressed hv the Leader of the Opposition. Mr George banshury, speaking in the House ot Commons. “One piling is certain—the experience of the years has taught me that, whatever people may say or think about the British Constitution, it is a. fact that, contradictory as it sounds, it does work, and the masses of the people are continually winning more arid more recognition and the right to take part in the government of this country.” saiid Mr iUansbury. .“The King and Queen are not known to me as they are to other members, hut on the very few occasions on which 1 have had the privilege of meeting them nobody could, have received more kindness and consideration than myself. In the days ol ones joy and in the days of one’s sorrow both the King and Queen were kindness itself to me. We who sit here and certainly nivself believe ultimately that human society will he based on elasslessness. I think that the mixture of classes in this Bouse and in the country, and the manner in which the Royal Family during these troublous vear,s have mixed and taken part in everything cam erning our lives, have done something to break down the feeling which prevailed when I was young that the monarchy would reserve for ever the domination of class. I think that we are getting away from that, and I believe that the King and Quoe.i and their family have done a very great deal to bring that about.”