TOP MUCH RUSH

Evening Post, Issue 6, 8 January 1935, Page 8

TOP MUCH RUSH

SCAIHING CRITICISM

"TRIUMIPtt FOR OFFICIALDOM"

■ (By Tel%raph—Presa Association.)' - . ' CHEISTCHUBCH, This Pay.. , ■ According to the special correspondent of one?) of the Christchurch morning papers,'"the Vtour of the Duke of Gloucester ,60 far, in <he South Island at any rate, may be regarded as a triumph for officialdom.. The progress of the Duke has been, from Picton to j Greymouth- a rush that has at all times been uncomfortably fast, and often dangerously, so! It has allowed nobody but the officials of the towns 'passed1; through to see the Duke, and then only in, stiffly i'ormal surroundings. His | Highness hais managed to inject some human touches into the tour when he has met the| children of the towns he has visited, flbut even here the whole setting has. been artificial, and the youngsters hteve obviously been drilled in their parto. There/has been only v,ery occasionally a relieving informal ttmch in a journey that has been ground painfully out' under the urgent compulsion of gettting to some place within a'time that, only most pressing speed can-make possible." ' IThe correspondent of thd*rither morn-, ing paper, referring to the WestportGreymouth plait of the trip, says:* '.'There was something strangely moving in the wajy these people turned out in the rain and stood there, and it is a pity' that thq exacting schedule, that made for speeJis that would be frowned on if private*- people attempted them, permitted theipeople^of'the townships no better reward than a quick guess as to which waslthe Duke as the cars flashed by." fi ' ' : ■■;. ' \ - — - ..