Belgian Throne

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 April 1949, Page 7

Belgian Throne

Prince Charles, the Belgian Regent, left today for Switzerland to meet his brother, the exiled King Leopold, ine Belgian Premier. M. Spaak, and th. Minister of Justice, M. Jfenn Moreau de Melen, will be present at the meetino 1 It is believed that King Leopold will tell his brother that he is not prepared to abdicate, but is prepared to accept certain conditions for his return, including' a promise to step down m favour of the 18-year-old Prince Baudouin, when the Prince is considered old enough to assume the throne.— Brussels, April 25.

N.Z. Yacht Crosses Tasman Two young New Zealand former servicemen made the Tasman crossing by yacht to march in the Anzac procession in Sydney today. They are Mr Howard Pitcher, an accountant, who served with the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and Mr D. Newton, an assembler, who was in the Army, and lost a leg at Tobruk. They arrived in the 38-year-old yacht Colonist, which they own jointly. They intend to stay in Australia for several months. A New Zealand farmer, Mr Harvev Manuel, ..accompanied them. The yacht left Auckland on March 23, and put in to Lord Howe Island for a At Lord Howe Island the three men were- joined by Mr’Alan Wilson, whose father and brother lost their lives in the auxiliary motor-boat Viking, which disappeared in bad weather between Sydney and Lord Howe Island in 1936. None of the three New ZeaI landers had had previous experience of deep-sea sailing.—Sydney, April 25.