VISIT TO HOLYROOD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

VISIT TO HOLYROOD.

UNEMPLOYED MAN'S TRIP. An unemployed mill timekeeper and his wife, Mr. and" Mrs. Sydney Hancock of Guiseley, Yorkshire, recently visited liolyrood Palace as the guests at a garden party of the Lord High Commissioner of the Church of Scotland, Mr. James Brown, who is an ox-miner. .. .. When they received a command invitation to attend the party —a sequel to a war-time friendship with the son of Mr. Brown —they had to refuse it, as they could not afford the expense of the journey to Edinburgh. After their reply had been sent, however, an offer came to pay the expenses of the trip. This was accepted. Mr. and Mrs. Hancock made hurried Arrangements and managed to reach Holyrood just in time. * , , tt Before leaving, Mr. Hancock said: 1 have not met Mr. and Mrs. Brown since the war, when I often shared their hospitality at the cottage at Annbank. I struck up a friendship with their son David, who lost his life in France. Mr. Hancock has been unemployed for two years and his family of a wife and two children have only 32s a week unemployment benefit.