CANADIAN ROUGHNECK IN ANCESTRAL HALLS
NEW EARL OP EGMONT. SON WOULD SOONER SEE STAMPEDE THAN OXFORD. Australian Press Association. Received Thursday 7 p.m. LONDON, March 20. The Earl of Egmont does not know fthat to do. He says ho was born in England but is so used to hard work in farming and stock keeping on the edge of the Canadian Rockies that ho fears life in his castle would be a bit tame. Ho added “I will sit in the House of Lords but there are lots of things to be done beforehand. The Dowager Countess is very nice. She is a fine lady and anyone can see she is a lady. It is tough luck for her but sho realises it cannot bo helped.” Freddy, the Earl’s son and heir, who seems to regard pressmen and photographers as his nathral enemies, on being asked if he would go to Oxford, replied that he would sooner seO a stampede. He said: “Everywhere I go, I’m pestered with you newspaper buys.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6866, 22 March 1929, Page 7
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171CANADIAN ROUGHNECK IN ANCESTRAL HALLS Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6866, 22 March 1929, Page 7
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