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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 40, 27 May 1910, Page 8

Qf the personal popularity oF Mr. Fisher, the new Labor' Prime Minister ot Australia, .there can be no doubt. When •passing through Sydnev on ApriT 24th on liis way to see the Oovernor-G'eneral lit Melbourne, the reception of the new Prime Minister was almost embarrassing in warmth- and heartiness. Cheer after cheer went 1 up as Mr. Fisher, bare-head-ed and carrying a bouquet of beautiful flowers presented to, him at Newcastle hv a fair admirer, alighted from ih-is carriage, and' fully two hundred men and women hustled round' him in the hone ot ■grasping liis spare hand. Suddenly 'half-a-dozen voices raised a cry, "Up with him, boys," and as many big fellows surged forward to lift tlie Labor leader| to their-shoulders. "No, no, my friends," said Mr. Fisher, looking grave, 'T never allow anything like that." He then proceeded 1 to thank them all for the cordiality of their reception, and the splendid way in- which the workers of New South Wales had responded to t«v party's appeal for support. After years of striving, he said, they had come into their own, and lie promised them that they should not he disappointed. No Government nor party mas without its faults, hut whatever their faults might he, they would not he of the heart.