SIR JOHN LUKE.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1925, Page 1

SIR JOHN LUKE.

AUCKLAND, April 21. Sir John and Lady Luke arrived by the Alhenic from l/mdoii this afternoon. Sir John Luke was one of the foul' New Zealand delegates to the Empire Parliamentary Conference held last year in South Africa. Alter his tour of tho Union, Lady Luke joined him at Durban, and they embarked for England, arriving in the middle of winter. During their stay of several months they motored over 4000 miles, and were much impressed by the excellent English roads. Even those marked “second class on the maps proved to have fine smooth suifaces, and not a single puncture occurred on the trip. Sir John attended the opening oi Parliament, and heard Air Baldwin make his first policy speech after the return of the Conservative Party to power. Ho was also present when Mr I). Kirkwood was expelled from the House by the Chairman of Committees for persistent interjection. He saw the Earl of Oxford and Asquith take the oath on his admission to the House of Lords, and heard him deliver his first speech as a peer '> this ATnrqnis Cur/.on replied, it being ],is last speech before bis fatal illness. ■U Westminster Sir John was most hospitably treated, and was entertained at luncheon several tunes by members of the Cabinet. _ „ , , Before embarking lor New Zealand <4ir John made a tour of the hattk--11,,1ds in Franco and Flanders. He found the New Zealand war eemetetios very well forward in recoNstructi„„ more so. indeed, than most ol those containing the bodies of Impeii'd officers and men. S r John and Lady Luke leave for Wellington this evening. He -ntcj seeking re-election to his present seat. AYellington North.