ROYAL FAMILY’S TOUR
RETURN TO ENGLAND ON MAY 11 (Rec. 10.50 p.m.) LONDON. April 15. Their Majesties drove through treelined, gaily decorated streets to Government House. Bulawayo, where they attended a garden partv, says Reuter’s correspondent, covering the Royal tour. A three-year-old boy, Ronnie Mitchell, who became separated from his parents, made his way to the dais on the bandstand and climbed up, just before the Royal Family arrived, on the seat reserved for His Majesty. Police rushed up the stairs and escorted him down.
The London correspondent of the New Zealand Press Association reports that the Royal Family is expected to arrive in Portsmouth harbour aboard the Vanguard on the evening of Sunday, May 11. There will be a reception in the Portsmouth Guildhall next morning, when the Royal party will go ashore. The party will arrive at Waterloo by special train at 12.30 p.m. on Monday, and will drive in a carriage procession by way of Westminster Bridge, Parliament Square, Whitehall, and the Mall to Buckingham Palace.
Churchill’s War Memoirs.-—Accord-ing to an “authoritative source,” Mr Churchill is making such rapid progress with his war memoirs that the material for two volumes is now completed in the rough.—London, April 14.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25160, 16 April 1947, Page 7
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