GREETING THE PRINCE.
FORMALITIES OF LANDING.
QUERY HE COULD NOT ANSWER.
NEW YORK. Aug.,. 29, The Prince of Wales arrived here from England very quietly. The first official welcome came from an aeroplane soaring above the Berengaria, which sent a wireless message from the President, Mr. Calvin Coolidge. Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, met the Prince. The New York newspapers term the Royal visitor "the '. British Empire's most priceless possession." To a gathering of 75 reporters he pleasantly declared he hoped to sea some great polo games, and then to travel leisurely westward to his Alberta ranch.
His Highness went through the iisnal formalities of examination and quarantine. An immigration official questioned him, and got so many smiling replies replete with American slang. Then a doctor examined him, and found him sound in mind and limb, and a fit subject to mix with the great American people. When asked if he might not marry some American girl, the Prince laughed heartily," and replied: "That's the one question 1 cannot answer." A moment later he closed the interview with, "I hope you boys will make it as easy, as possible for me by staying as far away as you can."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18813, 13 September 1924, Page 11
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