Prince Charles Says Goodbye
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MELBOURNE, July 28. Prince Charles, who leaves Australia on Monday, drove through Mansfield in drizzling rain today to say goodbye to business people, schoolchildren and farmers who had gathered to catch a last glimpse of him.
His two-tone station waggon, loaded with luggage, made a slow circuit of the town. The Prince, who was seated in the front passenger seat and wore sports clothes, occasionally stopped the car to speak to groups of people. Although Prince Charles has been into Mansfield several times, it was the first time most townsfolk had seen him. He arrived in Australia on February 2 and has spent two terms at Geelong Grammar School, at Geelong and Timbertop, the school’s mountain annex. H e leaves Melbourne by plane on Monday and will fly from Sydney the same day for Kingston, Jamaica, where he 'will join his father at the Em- | pire Games.
There were no boys out to see Prince Charles leave Timbertop. They all had their heads bent over examination papers for Commonwealth scholarships when he left The 130 boys said goodbye to the Prince after breakfast and then went off to class while he prepared to leave.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31124, 29 July 1966, Page 13
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