DAY BY DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14775, 14 October 1921, Page 4

DAY BY DAY

Gairloch, whither Mr Lloyd George went at the end of Little Rest August, in search of at the. rest of which he Gairloch. was so greatly in need,

seems, from what wc are told of it, to possess all the requisites of a holiday retreat for an over-worked Prime Minister. It is a village buried in the wilds of Rossshirc, in the midst of beautiful mountain scenery, 75 miles from Inverness. It contains one general store and a post office, but no telegraph office or telephone, and Plowerdalc, the house lent by the owner, Sir Kenneth McKenzie, to Mr Lloyd George, lying some distance from the village, is approachable only by one rocky road, so narrow that only one ear can travel over it at a time. Nearly all supplies have to bo brought from Dingwall, fifty miles away. Even Gairloch, however, proved insufficiently remote to ensure the Prime Minister obtaining that “little rest” which lie said, rather pathclicaliy, the other day, he had been trying, to get for years. The “terrible problems of the modern world” pursued him even into the heart of the hills. Sinn Fein delegates, London Labour Mayors—strangely out of their latitude—economists, and business men and colleagues, have helped to remind him of the problems of Ireland, finance, unemployment, and so on, that still awaited settlement. The uneasiness experienced by the head that wears a crown is ease itself compared with the troubles (hat haunt the heads of Governments nowadays.