GOVERNOR OF TASMANIA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18838, 13 October 1924, Page 7

GOVERNOR OF TASMANIA

CAPTAIN JAMES O'GRADY.

FIRST LABOUR VICE-ROYALTY.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 6.5 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 10. Captain James O'Grady, M.P. for South-east Leeds, has been appointed Governor of Tasmania. The Daily Express says the appointment •was only rendered possible because Captain O'Grady will not be required to occupy Government House, which onlv a wealthy man could afford to maintain. Captain O'Grady, who is secretary of the National Federation of Workers, has represented South-east Leeds in the British Parliament since 1918. He is the first Labour Governor to be appointed m that capacity to any British Dominion. Born in Bristol, England, in 1866, Captain O'Grady was educated at St. Mary'.; Roman Catholic School in that city. He was president of the Trade Union Congress at Bristol in 1898. From 1915 to 1918 he was on active service with British, French, Russian and American troops in many theatres of the war, and in the spring of 1917 he was sent on a mission to Russia. He negotiated with a representative of the Soviet at Copenhagen for the exchange of British prisoners and for the repatriation of all British civilians in Russia at that time. - Captain O'Grady was engaged in special recruiting work in Ireland in 1918.