JOHN STOREY BACKSLIDES

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160692, 3 July 1920, Page 9

JOHN STOREY BACKSLIDES

Premier John Storey, of New South Wales, is umtiag trouble (says the Christchurch Sun). Most emphatically he is not Haas-conscious enough. He Ims backslid to the extent of being enthusiastic about the Prince’s visit to Sydney and declaring the Heir to the Throne lo be a true democrat. Then, throwing discretion to the winds, John Storey predicts • that this lovable young man, if given the opportunity, will knit closer the scattered threads of Enpira. “Scattered threads of Empire,” indeed! What is a good Labour leader doing in that company P John Storey had better not spend his next vacation in Christchurch. We tremble to think of the reception he would receive at the hands of the local Labour Representation Committee: that committee which ordered its adherents to retire behind drawn blinds and closed doors when the Prince passed, so that their classconsciousness might remain unimpaired and be the moro greatly gioridacL