TASMANIAN GOVERNOR.
PLAIN MAN OF THE PEOPLE.
COLOMBO, Dcc. 7.
Sir James O'Grady, Tasmania's new Governor, who is bound for Australia by the R.M.S. Oraina, declined to be interviewed on arrival here, stating that be had promised not to communicate any information before bis arrival in Tasmania.
Ori the voyage Sir James presided at a meeting in the third-class section of the steamer. In hia address he said ho was " a man of the people, and unused to this sort of thing." Ho was alluding to evening dress.
Sir James sa'd ho was the eldest of a large family. Ilis father was earning fourpencc an hour as a miner, and ho himself went down into the pit at the nge of seven. He added that this was the, first meeting he had addressed at jviiich he had to bo politically neutraL
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18895, 18 December 1924, Page 12
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