AT HONOLULU

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 90, 16 April 1920, Page 7

AT HONOLULU

THE PRINCE'S TOUR

SURFING AT WAIKIKI

AMERICAN ENTHUSIASM.

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(Received April 16, 10 a.m.)

HONOLULU, 15th April

One day only was spent in Honolulu by the Benown, but enough romance, interest, and unusual entertainment was compressed into the brief visit* of the Prince of Wales to suffice for a week. A Whisper went round early in the day that the Prince- purposed to try surfriding at Waikiki beach quietly by himself, after the public exhibition of surfriding by experts was concluded. Everybody in the city heard the whisper within half an hour, as if it had been shouted by the San Diego " magna-vox " (electrically opera-ted megaphone). A large proportion of the entire population of Honolulu assembled in bathing costumes on the surfing beach late in the afternoon, bathing being entirely suspended. The jetty from Manoa Hotel was packed tight from end to - end. Camera-men and cinema operators erected their machines on native outrigger canoes and waited in the surf at the imminent risk of catastrophe, for the shore was obscured with crowds of rain-bow-coloured bathers.

Cheers went up when the Prince emerged from the new wing of the hotel. He wore an ordinary unassuming costume, blue-edged with red stripe. Duke Kahanamoku, the famous Hawaiian swimmer, attended with a native outrigger canoe. Amid enthusiastic cheers the Prince and his party shoved off, the Hawaiian taking the steering paddle. The Prince occupied the thwart seat, taking the paddle next to the .Hawaiian. The party paddled out a mile and came back with the^speed of an express train, surrounded by cinemas, camera-men, and observers with powerful glasses. Frequent runs were made in the same way, members of the crew declaring that it was like toboganning. The Prince afterwards enjoyed a swim. The surf-riding afternoon was a hugs success.

(Received April 16, 10 a.m.)

HONOLULU, 14th April. The Prince has sailed for Australia and New Zealand.