HIS MAJESTY'S GIFT
CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND DUKE OF YORK'S SPEECH LONDON, 19th May. Six thousand children uproariously Welcomed the Duko of York when he arrived to open the King's Playing Fields, which consist of five acres of the old Royal Paddocks at Hampton Wick. The King presented the land to the Natfonal- Playing' Isolds Association, which spent £4OOO in levelling' the ground and providing amusements for younger children. . . ' The Duke of York said that since the announcement of the King's gift, landowners and others had given 523 other recreation grounds to the association. He urged, the children to "play the gaiue," both on .the playing-fields and throughout! their lives in the true spirit of British sportsmanship;
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 May 1930, Page 13
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115HIS MAJESTY'S GIFT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 May 1930, Page 13
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