KING’S HOLIDAY.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR STAY TX NICE. PRIVACY PROMISED STRIKERS COMPOSE THEIR DIFFERENCES (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright). NICE, July 14. The British Ambassador to Franco. Sir George Clerk, has .arrived to complete tho details of His Majesty s holiday at the Chateau do I : Horizon. The King will travel incognito n.s the Duke of Lancaster after attending the unveiling of the Canadian war memorial on Vimy Ridge on July £O. The authorities at Cannes have assured the ambassador that the King’s privacy will be respected. The strikers are equally anxious that nothing -shall spoil the-King’s holiday visit, and are rapidly composing their differences with the employers. The Chateau de I’Horizou. which the King lias taken for his summer holiday, is considered by many people to be the most beautiful house on the Riviera. It was designed by an Englishman, Colonel iEriei Sawyer, and an American, Mr. Barry Diercks. These two architect's, who themselves live near Cannes, have built a number of severely simple, flat-roo'cd houses on the coast. Their style has happily displaced the old fashion's of ornately plastered villas and sham mediaeval castles. The Chateau de FHorizon takes- its name from its -supbe.r view of Golfc Juan mid the open sea. In front ‘of house there is a swimming pool, and from the pool there is a- slide to the Mediterranean...
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXV, Issue 12914, 16 July 1936, Page 5
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