PRINCE OF WALES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 July 1925, Page 5

PRINCE OF WALES.

NATIVES’ VALUABLE GIFT. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT. CAPETOWN, July 8. The Prince of Wales attended a monster native indaba at Salisbury. Over ten thousand, including eight hundred chiefs and headmen from all part s of Mashonaland, were present. The Prince was presented on behalf of the chiefs and the people, with a magnificent pair of elephant tusks, joined together by a broad band of Rhodesian gold and platinum. UNDERGROUND IN A MINE. SUCCESSFUL DAY AT RACES. CAPETOWN, June 88. The Prince of Wales, in overalls, descended the Crown mines at Johannesburg. The steel door of the cage clanged, shutting out the light. It took a minute to drop 3000 ft., and then the Prince stepped out in a whitewashed space, reminiscent of a London tube station. A two-coach train carried the party a mile. Tlie Prince entered ; the stope with the aid of acetylene flares, and groped his way about at an angle of 4 5 degrees, coming upon a group of miners who were working steel drills. The “boss” explained the mining methods and pointed out the gold-bearing rock. The Prince next visited the underground power station, where gigantic engines work unceasingly. He also visited the West Rand centres.

After placing a wreath on the war memorial at Krugersdorp, he conversed tenderly- with several pale-faced blackgarbed widows, who were wearing their husbands’ medals. The service men next claimed his attention. He then motored to the historic Piet Relief memorial, where an old Boer, 103 years of age, was introduced to him. With him were his two sons, each over 80 years. The huge crowd s everywhere behaved splendidly. At the races the Prince won £IOO. He backed the winner of the Prince of Wales Cup, Furlong. At the civic banquet lie delighted an audience of 700 by saying that the only thing for liim to do was to come back at another time.

Regarding the mine wages dispute, the Prince asked each man to see the other’s point of view, concluding: “That’s that. I will watch the progress of your great city with keen and sympathetic interest.”