“MAN OF THE PEOPLE.”
BLUNT “JIMMIE” O’GRADY. UNUSED TO “GLAD RAGS.” COLOMBO. Dec.* 7? Sir James O’Grady, Tasmania’s new Governor, who is bound for Australia by the R.M.s. Orama, declined to be interviewed on arrival here, stating that he had promised not to communicate any information before his arrival in Tasmania. On the voyage he presided at a meeting in the third-class section of' the steamer. During his address he said he was “a man of the people, and unused to this sort of thing.” Re was alluding to evening dress. Sir James said he was the eldest of a large family. His father was earning fourpence an hour, and he himself went down into the pit at the ago of seven. He added that this was the first meeting he had addressed at which he had to be politically neutral During his term of office* h e would have to be “non-party.” They could imagine what a hard task this would be to a man of his temperament.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 December 1924, Page 2
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169“MAN OF THE PEOPLE.” Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 December 1924, Page 2
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