PRINCE VISITS DUBLIN
Opening of Parliament House AN ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME Crowds Line Decorated Streets ROYAL SALUTE AT QUAYSIDE >KINjG;’.S MESSAGE. AT CEREMONY. ' (British Official Wireless.) Received 2 p.m. to-day. RUGBY, Nov. 16. Immense crowds assembled at Belfast to-day from all parts of Ulster to greet the Prince of Wales, who was received and welcomed when lie landed on the quayside from the niotoi vessel Ulster Queen. The Duke of Abej-corn (Governor of Northern jrelanu) and Lord Craigavon (the Prime Minister) boarded the vessel to greet him. As the Prince landed the standard broke on the quay and the cruisers Dorsetshire and Exeter fired the Royal Salute,,, A procession was formed and left for the new. Parliament Buildings. Along the four mile route through Belfast from the quayside t.o Stormont great crowds lined the gaily decorated streets and gave a widely enthusiastic greeting to the Prince as he drove to perform the opening ceremony of the new Parliament Buildings. Ram fell heavily during the procession, but the Prince insisted on driving in an open car. Awaiting the Prince in the great hall at Stormont were the Northern Ireland Cabinet and a host pf“~ distinguished Irishmen. The opening ceremony was performed by the P'rince on behalf of the King, from whom he delivered a message of greetings. The P'rince said it was Ins father’s earnest prayer that they should meet the difficulties confronting the whole world as well as their own special problems with the courage, tenacity, loyalty and devotion, which had made Northern Irishmen famous in the annals of the Empire. The Prince afterwards proceeded through cheering crowds to the City Hall, where an address of welcome was delivered. His visit to Ulster will extend for three days and will include a tour of representative industries. A section of the great northern railway near Virginia. County Cavan, was ripped: up last night to prevent Free State excursionists from visiting Belfast to welcome the Prince. Red flags and notices warned that the line had been ripped and mined and a placard read: “Ireland belongs to the Irish.”
North and south telegraph lines were also out.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 17 November 1932, Page 7
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