BEER'S HEIR OUT BACK.
LORD APSLEY IN VICTORIA. REPRESENTS LONDON PAPER. Australian and N.Z. Cubic Association. (Heed. 10.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE. May 25. An athletic young Englishman arrived nt Melbourne two months ago fey the f. tea trier Qraina and sought information from the Immigration Bureau. He gave his name /as " Mr. B—," and said he intended t(f, go out-back arid gain experience of the life there. After living on a cattle station in flippsiand and a wheat faim in the Mulloe. lie returned to Melbourne and is now staying at Scots' Hotel. It. transpires that the visitor was hiding his identity under plain clothes and heavy boots. He is Captain Lord Apsley, heir to Earl Bat hurst, and has come to Australia to represent the Morning Post at the forthcoming Empire Press Conference. 3To io spending the intervening time in gathering' first hand information. Lord Apsley,. who formerly held a jirivate Parliamentary secretaryship in the Department of Overseas Trade in London, and is deeply interested in immigration matters, is taking advantage of his present visit to test in a practical irjanner the opportunities offering for immigrants. Ho will shortly pay a visit to North-Western Australia to spy out tba chances for immigration and settlement there.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19027, 26 May 1925, Page 9
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