DUKE OF GLOUCESTER
HONOUR CONFERRED UNIVERSITY DEGREE. MELBOURNE CEREMONY. [United Press Association—Zy Electric Telegraph.—Copyrights (Received 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE; November 7. At an impressive ceremony today the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred oh, the . Duke .of. Gloucester at Melbourne University. He is the fifth member of the Royal Family to be honoured in this way. The . University Rifles formed - a Guard of- Honour to' the'Duke, who was robed in the gown of Doctor Of Laws of Cambridge.
•An extraordinarily strong ■ police guard was present, apparently .to.prevent a repetition of. ragging which, occurred when the Duke of Yprkhad a similar degree conferred ..on Jhim in 1927.- He was lifted shoulder high, and placed on a table and induced to.make a speech 1 . The Duke of Gloucester ; today said: “Apart from the stores of . knowledge which a university offers, it .points the way’ and . guides. the ‘ footsteps of many who halt uncertainly bn.-.- the threshold , of;, life. Such ' .twining breeds : not 0n1y... deep - thinkers,';. >'but broad-minded’ men of the . world, ~■( of whom the Empire was never more in need.” . • ••••>
His Royal Highness also attended the Empire Blind Soldiers’ Congress. There, for the first time on the tour, he posed specially for photographers. NEW ZEALAND VISIT. IMPRESSION OF YOUTH. MASSED DEMONSTRATION;*' ", [Per Press Association.—Copyright.] WELLINGTON, This Day. A massed demonstration at Newtown Park, by nearly 14,000 mipils 'on the morning of Tuesday, December 18, will give the Duke of Gloucester his first close .impression of the youth of New Zealand. The DukC ie ta arrive at Wellington on Saturday,- 1 December 15, for his six weeks < tour' of the Dominion. ' • • ' x ' The children /will be ‘from schools within a radius of. 40 - miles from the city, and the display l will take the form of evolutions ‘by the various schools and a grand : inarch past..
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Northern Advocate, 8 November 1934, Page 4
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