Prince begins busy tour
PA Wellington Prince Charles, at present the most talked about figure in the Royal Family, can expect the sun to shine in Wellington today when he starts a five week tour which will take him through New Zealand, Australia, Venezuela, and the United States.
The Weather Office, which will supply the Royal Tour party with special reports during Prince Charles’s visit to New Zealand, was confident of fine weather and only light winds for the official welcoming cere : mony on Wellington’s Basin Reserve this morning. Prince ' Charles, who kissed his fiancee, Lady Diana Spencer, goodbye at Heathrow Airport yesterday, is due to step from his Royal Air Force VCIO aircraft at Wellington Airport at 9.45 a.m. In Wellington, Prince Charles has a number cf official engagements, including a dinrfer with prominent New Zealanders at the Prime Minister’s Vogel House residence and a grand ball tomorrow evening, to which 300 guests are invited.
This evening Prince Charles will meet a large contingent of news media representatives and attend a reception at the Beehive before driving to Vogel House.
On Monday Prince Charles will drive to Rotorua, from where he will leave on Tuesday for Blenheim to start the South Island section of his tour. He will visit Mount Cook, Twizel, Te Anau, Invercargill; Dunedin, and Christchurch.
He .will leave for Australia from Christchurch'' on April 12. . Tawa College, Wellington, has organised a “Cheer for Charlie” fund raising project. Members of the seventh form economics class have made nearly 300 miniature Union Jacks which are being sold at the college for 30c each.
The money will go to the Crippled Children Society, which is one of Prince Charles’s charities, the deputy head girl, Anne Gilmore said last evening.
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