LABOURER IN UNIFORM

Southland Times, Issue 19458, 23 January 1925, Page 6

LABOURER IN UNIFORM

GOVERNMENT HOUSE INCIDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Gable Association.) PERTH, January 21. A peculiar incident happened at Government House. When a constable came on duty early on Tuesday morning he found a labourer named Bush dressed in a military staff officer’s uniform in the private secretary’s room. Bush informed the constable that he could go off duty, claiming that he was the Governor’s son. He then walked into the drawing room, where he made himself comfortable ih an easy chair. The constable called a footman, whom Bush, in a nonchalant manner, sought to dismiss, but the footman recognised him as the man who had lately given considerable trouble about Government House. Lady Campion came upon the scene and denied that Bush was her son, whereupon he bolted, and was captured in the garden. He was subsequently sentenced to two months’ imprisonment on a charge of being unlawfully on the premises. He was recently discharged from hospital after being under medical observation.