PRINCE OF WALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21295, 23 September 1932, Page 9

PRINCE OF WALES

VISIT TO COPENHAGEN AIR JOURNEY FROM HOME BRITISH TRADE EXHIBITION SCOTTISH PIPERS ATTENDING By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 22, 6.5 p.m.) British Wireless , lIUGBY, Sept. 21 Tiie Prince of Wales, who has been staying witli the King and Queen at Balmoral, returned to London to-day and proceeded to St. James Palace to complete arrangements for his visit to Copenhagen. He will leave 'Croydon to-morrow in an Imperial Airways liner. Twenty-three Danish military and naval aeroplanes will ascend from Copenhagen to meet His Royal Highness and escort him to the aerodrome, where the Crown Prince Frederick and Prince Axel, who aro keenly interested in flying, will await their arrival. The pipers of the Second Gordon Highlanders, who aro to play at the British trade exhibition to be opened by the Prince of Wales at Copenhagen on Saturday, arrived there to-day and were accorded an enthusiastic reception. Their distinctive uniforms and the music of their bagpipes created great interest as they marched through the city.

The British Exhibition to ho held at Copenhagen from September 24 To October 9 gives good promise of being a success and helping to further the trade intercourse between the two countries, indeed between Britain and tho whole of Scandinavia, for the interest is not limited to Denmark alone. The Forum, which is the largest exhibition and assembly hall in the northern countries, tho Industry Building where the British coal exhibition was held, and the Tivoli Gardens, a sort of permanent Wembley amusemont park, have all been requisitioned for the exhibition. The exhibitors number over 400, and practically all are leading names in the British industrial world. The Forum is to be used for machinery, motor vehicles and building materials. The Industry Building will bo essentially given up to textiles, porcelain and propaganda—the latter especially from the Port of London and from Scotland. In tho Tivoli Gardens the permanent buildings have been supplemented by several special pavilions. The exhibits in these pavilions will comprise furniture, paper, radio and gramophones, leather goods, smaller machinery, foodstuffs, toilet requisites, footwear and oil, while there will be a special coal department and shipping department. The band of the Gordon Highlanders has been senA over for the exhibition, and there wijl also be a British naval squadron stationed in the harbour. In England the arrangements were in the hands of a committee working in conjunction with the Federation of British industries and tho Department of Overseas Trade and at Copenhagen the British Import Union and a special committee were responsible.