GIRLS’ PRESENT TO QUEEN
Money For Children’s Savings
(Rec. 11 p.m.) ADELAIDE, March 24. Two little girls today evaded the Queen’s bodyguard and gave the Queen two threepenny pieces for the moneyboxes of Prince Charles and Princess Anne.
The Queen had just stepped from her car to attend a women’s luncheon vzhen the small sisters, Ann and Lorraine Schwartz, aged six and five, of Black Forest, near Adelaide, ducked under the barriers and ran to the Queen. Each carried the threepence in an envelope. The Queen was taken by surprise when the children pressed the envelopes into her hand, but smiled when they said shyly that the money was for her children's moneyboxes The girls are the daughters of Mr and Mrs L. R. Schwartz. Mrs Schwartz made a similar gesture when the Queen Mother was here as Duchess of York in 1927. She said today: “I gave the Duchess threepence in an envelope to be put in the moneybox of Princess Elizabeth, now our Queen.” The Queen had a busy day today. She held an investiture and a meeting of the Executive Council at Government House this morning, a women’s gathering at midday, the Lord Mayor’s garden party this afternoon, and a music festival by the South Australian Symphony Orchestra and local choirs and bands tonight. The new Royal tour programme for Western Australia, announced today, provides for the longest processions of the tour. Western Australians, in spite of the poliomyelitis epidemic, will see more of the Queen outdoors than people in other States. Altogether the Queen will travel 190 miles by road in Royal progresses. Each day the Queen will have to travel 10 miles back to the Gothic in Fremantle. The new programme also includes two 15-mile processions in the Royal barge on the Swan river. Thirteen Die in Bengal Riot.—Thirteen persons were killed and 35 injured in riots at a big new paper mill at Chandraghona, 130 miles south of Dacca, in East Bengal. Among those killed were the mill’s operating manager and two other senior officials.— Karachi, March 23.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27307, 25 March 1954, Page 11
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