DIAMONDS FOR THE PRINCESS
OPENING OF EAST LONDON DOCK FIRST SPEECH IN SOUTH AFRICA
(Rec. 12.30 p.m.)
CAPE TOWN, March 3. The East London railway and harbours administration gave Princess Elizabeth a present of five unset diamonds, worth £3,700, to make her a brooch when she opened the new graving dock' at East London. The Princess made her first public speech in the Union. She said: “You have atremendous heritage, a big country waiting to be developed, rich in its peoples, enterprise, and in its mineral and natural resources.” , The dock took four and n-half years to build at a cost of £2.500,000." It will accommodate 17,000-ton liners.
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Evening Star, Issue 26041, 4 March 1947, Page 7
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