TOCH FESTIVAL
f PRINCE OF WALDS. , United Press Association. —By Electric 'telegraph —Copyright.! LONDON, Dec. 8. Albert Hall was thronged when the Prince of Wales, General Dawes, Lords Plainer and Forster attended the Toe H festival evening. The assemblage was even more uproarious and enthusiastic than yesterday night. When the Prince of Wales took the platform it seemed that the building actually shook, whiblt a thousand waved programmes giving a snowstorm effect.
The Prince of Walgs announced Sir Charles Wakefield had purchased and endowed the original Talbot House at Poporinglnie.
The Duke of Westminster in memory of his mother, the Countess of Grosvenor, had donated two houses in Saint George’s Square, thereby establishing another “mark,” also a full-time padre endowment, and the fund was increased from sixty-two thousand to a hundred thousand.
Great cheering greeted the Prince of Wad's when he welcomed the fact that Germany had joined the movement, The Prince of Wales said the movement was increasing yearly, but they must be most careful that all members pull'd their weight. He added:—“l believe all do. I merely utter a warning lost people think they become members merely for the asking. The Prince of Wales lit forty new lamps, two from Nwe Zealand (Christchurch and Dunedin), also a new lamps, two from New Zealand bine Willie.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1929, Page 7
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