DIED ON A BUS

Southland Times, Issue 19279, 25 June 1924, Page 5

DIED ON A BUS

SOCIALIST MEMBER’S END. NAMED AS GOVERNOR FOR FEBRUARY. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Reuter’s Telegrams.) LONDON, June 23. (Received June 24, 7.50 p.m.) Mr W. Stapleton Royce, the Socialist M.P., whose name was mentioned as the next Governor of Tasmania, died while proceeding to Westminster on a bus. He was returning after consulting his wife and friends regarding the Governorship. It is understood he intended to inform Mr Thomas of his acceptance. DEAD MAN’S CAREER. LONDON, June 23. Mr Royce started fife as an apprentice to a builder. He went to South Africa at the age of eighteen years and eventually became managing director of the Transvaal Engineering and Contracting Company. Returning to England, he twice fought the Holland division, as a Unionist in 1910, and as a Labourite in 1918: Recently he was a large land-owner in the Spalding district.