MET AT WATERLOO.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 217, 13 October 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

MET AT WATERLOO.

OLD GENTLEMAN FROM AUSTRALIA. A meeting witht he Prime Minister ci Australia, Mr. W. M. Hughes, when lie was in England, is told in amusing flush ion by Sgt. Randolph Pearson, <>; Guyra, in a letter which has just been ioi<.ived by his parents. '• We were going for a visit to Reading," he writes," and at Waterloo Station we iiad to wait for our train, so w»- went for a walk along a platform We stopped to talk to four or live Australians who had just arrived from Au>falia, aTid were standing there When ;i motor car pulled up alongside us. An old gentleman got out and caught hold of my hand and shook it. 1 didn't know him from an Egyptian hawker. "Then lus wife got out —well 1 took her fcr h : s wife —and she came and lid the same. Th.n they both stoppel talking to us for a long time, and who should they h c hut Billy Hughes, Australia's Prime Minister, and his wlf* and chid, on their way hack to Australia. They both said good-bye to us and went to catch their train fir Plymouth, so we got as many hoys a 5 we enn!<! muster on the platforms and went to go on to their platform to gi.') •tlom a hit of as end-off, but the rafi-i ivay officials would not allow us i... Andy FMier saw us standing there talking to the man at the gate, and !:- and n general named .Moore (Sir New- j ton Moore, of West Australia) came ovi ;• and got pormis> ; on for us to so in. "Willi we got in both Mr. Hughes .inJ Andy Fisher started talking to us liter woiy only about a dozen of 11=, and wo were in 1 inlt format'on round them. Mr. Hughe; had to K- told ; three times to get aboard the train or' he would he left behind. Mr. Fisher ; ranio and shook hands with us and sai 1 goodbye."