PRINCE IN COALFIELDS
DISTRESSED FAMILIES
PEESONAL VISITS
United Press Association —By Electric T«Ueraph—Copyright. Australian Press Association. LONDON, 28th January. The Prince oi: Wales left for Newcastle to-night, and after breakfast tomorrow begins the most remarkable tour over undertaken by an heir to the throne. Simplicity will be the keynote of his motor tour, which will cover a hundred distressed mining townships and villages in Northumberland and Durham. ? To-morrow he will briefly confer with the Lord Mayor ana officials of the miners' distress fund, after which he will set out on an unannounced itiner- . ary, because he desires to meet miners and their families in their own homes. He fears that if tho route were published they would do their utmost to hide their poverty. He will set out daily with a packet of sandwiches in his pocket and tour 60 or 70 miles between 9 o 'clock in the morning and 6 o 'clock in the evening, making friendly and unexpected calls at miners' homes. Ho will also visit training centres where miners' boys are learning farming with a view to migration and where girls are training as domestics.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1929, Page 11
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189PRINCE IN COALFIELDS Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1929, Page 11
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