TOUR BY PRINCE HENRY

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 30 April 1934, Page 7

TOUR BY PRINCE HENRY

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. GOVERNOR RECEIVES ADVICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 30. The Governor-General, Lord Bledi-s----lee, has received an announcement concerning Prince George’s tour in the same vein as that cabled from Australia, stating that the King approved of the Duke of Gloucester (Prince Henry) paying the visit to Australia and New Zealand instead of Prince George.

MAN OF ACTION. INTEREST I,N ARMY LIFE. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 1.50 o.m. to-day. LONDON, April 29. That Australians will be delighted with Prince Henry, who is a man after their own hearts, is the opinion _of those connected with the Royal faanily. He is first class at sport, is tireless and careless of his personal safety when riding, big game hunting and soldiering. He is essentially a man of action, yet is as gentle as a woman. He is fond of pictures and. flowers, and is every ready to respond to the call of charity. His greatest interest in life is as a soldier, Avhich he takes most seriously. Ho realises that modern Avar fare is not a glamorous affair, but would ,be grimly mechanical, and for this reason.he lias undergone an intensive training in the armoured car regiment of which lie Avas formerly a captain. He is interested in all aspects of mechanisation. No one is more keenly Interested in the Avelfare of hoys, Avho invariably attract his strong, soldier-like personality. He is more than a figurehead as the president of the National Association of Bovs’ Clubs. He says England must care for the thousands of hoys in the depressed areas who have the same spirit as Kitchener’s Army, but Avho may die for lack of nourishment. Prince Henry is. not a finished orator. Like the Prince o F Wales he makes no formal public address, and can only be induced to speak on causes he has at heart, when his remarks have a nassionate, sincere note that never fails to inspire his friends. Thev dabbed him the “nriuce of beggars” Avhen he raised £15,000 in a feAV minutes for his favourite hospital. It is recalled that ill-health obliged Prince George to relinquish a naval career in 1929, when lie was attached to the Foreign Office.