LABOUR PRIME MINISTER

Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1929, Page 9

LABOUR PRIME MINISTER

RETURN TO NATIVE HEATH TRIUMPHANT HOMECOMING HOLIDAY AT LOSSIEMOUTH By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian Press Association. United Service. London, June 12. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, accompanied by his daughter Isabel, was tumultuously welcomed at Lossiemouth. School children, who were on holiday, cheered and waved flags, trains whistled, and harbour drifters sounded their sirens, xk crowd of women attached ropes to the Premier’s car and hauled it in triumphal procession to The Hillocks, accompanied by a pipers’ band. Mr. MacDonald’s journey to Lossiemouth was something of a' triumphal procession. At Aberdeen, where he changed trains at 11.30 this morning, hundreds of people on the platform cheered. At every station from Aberdeen to Lossiemouth people raised cheers, which Mr. MacDonald acknowledged through the window of his carriage. The everyday life of Lossiemouth was suspended, and the whole town turned out to give a rousing welcome to the new Prime Minister. Political opinions were forgotten in the general desire to honour the man who had risen to the highest office in the State and yet retained his love of his native shore and kept his old, friendships alive. Amid cheering by the school children the Prime Minister alighted from the train and was immediately surrounded by a throng of friends, old fishermen and their wives, whose handshakes were hearty. An official reception was held outside the station. In a speech of welcome the Provost said: “May your name go down to posterity as the great Prime Minister who made peace possible among the nations of the earth.’’ ‘ At the end of his holiday at Lossiemouth, Mr. MacDonald proposes to return to London by aeroplane.