LABOUR’S WIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 679, 3 June 1929, Page 16

LABOUR’S WIN

NULLIFIES QUEENSLAND DEFEAT GEELONG EDITOR’S VIEW Thirty years of journalistic work in England, South Africa and Australia have entitled Mr. Lance Fallaw, M.A., B.Litt., to an extended holiday. Accompanied by his wife, who is also a jt nallst, Mr, Fallaw was a passengc Sydney to Vancouver by the Niagara this morning. He said the Labour victory in England nullified the effect of the Queensland defeat. For the past seven years Mr. Fallaw has been editor of the “Geelong Advertiser.” When he returns from the world tour he is now making he will join the editorial staff of the Sydney “Morning Herald.” Out of his 30 years of newspaper work Mr. Fallaw has spent 19 years as an editor. As a poet he has produced three volumes of verse, “Silverleaf and C “An Ampler Sky,” and “Unend ing Ways.” ‘“My wife is a press-woman, too,” said Mr. Fallaw. "For seven years she was social editress on the paper I edited in Geelong. We have been married only a short time, and I we staged the first Rotary Conference wedding in history. After attending the conference held at Canberra we were married there. “The effect of the smashing defeat of the Labour forces in Queensland has been nullified by the British elections,” Mr. Fallaw told THE SUN. "I know Queensland very well, having edited three newspapers there, and I was amazed that the Labour rule could fast so long. “Though this is my first sight of New Zealand,” said Mr. Fallaw, “I might say I know more about the Dominion than about any other country. I have so r y New Zealand friends and I have made a careful study of the country. “Over in Australia we have the greatest admiration for your newspapers. Your illustration work Is ad-mir-d by all Australian pressmen. Perhaps the milder climate of New Zealand accounts for the excellent nk effects obtained.”

Despite his newspaper work Mr. . How has take:’, a keen interest in many organisations, and is a past president of the Geelong Rotary Club In addition he has been a member and active worker in many other organisations.