Word: apsley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eight months ago Lord Apsley, eldest son of the Earl of Bathurst, set out for Australia as an "emigrant" under the alias "George Bott." Last week, returning to England, he vouchsafed the following statement: "I worked on one farm for 20 shillings a week. . . . So far as my experiences went as an emigrant, I am convinced there is no difficulty in getting a job in Australia. A man can start on his own in a comparatively shorter time than in any other part of the world and make a comfortable living. ... No one should go out there with the idea...
Somebody said immigrants were badly treated on reaching Australia. Said Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, to Lord Apsley: "Either you or I will have to go and see things for ourselves." As a day laborer at $5 a week went in strict incognito Lord Apsley, heir apparent to old Lord Bathurst, whose wife was until recently owner of The Morning Post. Last week he came back, said that immigrants were not badly treated...
...Lord Apsley, Conservative, said that "Odin threw it at another god who was making love to Odin's wife. The stone missed the culprit and fell among the Scots...