TOO H CELEBRATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19510, 14 December 1926, Page 13

TOO H CELEBRATIONS.

FAMILY BIRTHDAY PARTY. PRINCE LIGHTS THE LAMP. A. and ILZ. LONDON, Dec. 12. At the Toe H celebrations at Manchester, the Prince of Wales, as patron of Toe 51, lighted the Lamp of Remembrance at Mark Four branch in Victoria Park, Manchester.

Arising from a desire to give the meeting the character of a family gathering, the details of tho Prince's visit were kept secret.

The Prince of Wales entrained after hunting in Leicestershire, arid changed into a motor-car at Chorlton-cum-Hardy. In spite of the secrecy observed huge crowds gathered all along the route from Chorlton to Manchester, but failed to get a glimpse of the Prince, as his motor-car was not lighted. A vast congregation welcomed the Prince at Manchester Cathedral, where the service used was one specially written by the Rev. (" Tubby") Clayton. It. was a paraphrase of parts of Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress." Mr. Clayton as Bunyan's character " Goodwill" stood at the wicket gate, and clergymen in different parts of the congregation rose and each recited a passage from Bunyan. During the celebrations, Dean Grotty, Dean of Newcastle, New South Wales, received from the hands of the Prince a cross from the grave of an unknown soldier in France, on behalf of the Australian Toe H.

At a crowded meeting in the evening in the Free Trade Hall the Prince specially commented on the great development of Toe H in Australia, and he subsequently received the Australian delegates. The Prince left Manchester the same evening as secretly as he arrhed.