THE ROYAL PRINCES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20292, 28 December 1927, Page 12

THE ROYAL PRINCES.

BRITISH MOTOR CARS. MARKETS IN THE DOMINIONS. DUKE OF YORK AS A SHIPWRIGHT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, November 11. Tho Prince of Wales spent 10 horn's in Glasgow, and in that time fulfilled nine engagements including the opening of the Scottish Motor Show. “ Never let up, because, remember the other fellow never docs,” was the advice which the Prince offered to his audience of motor manufacturers. “If I do not know the complexities of any single industry,” he continued, “ I have had many opportunities of observing for myself tbe impression our manufactured articles make overseas, in tho dominions, the colonics, and in foreign countries. “ Don’t forget your export trade, because it has enormous possibilities. . If you make a noint of studying the conditions and requirements which exist overseas, both within the Empire and some of the new foreign countries if you make tho typos of cars they want they will buy them; anyway, the British community, and, I believe, the foreign communities will. But, like every human being, they insist of having .just whet they want and getting what they want. So it is up to all of you in the automobile industry to get down to it and discover the best way of providing them with the article they want.” A RIOTOUS WELCOME.

At the factories of the Sootlish Co-opera-tive Society tho Prince was received with great enthusiasm. Described a.s an inspection of the factories, the occasion resolved itself into a riotous welcome by hundreds of excited working girls and by a . parade of nearly 100 ox-Servicp men, which file Prince described as “ the most wonderlul I have ever seen.” Tho Prince stopped now and again as be inspected the ranks to exchange a handshake and a word M congratulation with men whose display of medals distinguished them. He also talked for a few minutes with members of a small detachment of nurses who, by virtue of their war services, took part in die triradc. “I have seen the work or the co-operative movement on two occasions in England, and I am very glad to be able to visit yon on this rather bll T? Creels said the Prince before he left. Hundreds of factory girls surged round his car, standing on tlie running boards and .eagerly reaching to clasp his hand, while they sang ‘AVill Ye No Come Back Again. The Prince of Wales acted as godfatner atthe Stcning of the infant, son of his former equep-y, Major Metcalfe, and iinrlv Alexandra JMetcaliG. Lady Alexandra Metcalfe is the youngest daughter of the late Marquis Curzon of TCpflleston Her sister. Lady Cynthm Mosley, acted as godmother. The names bestowed on the infant were David Patrick.

DUKE OF YORK AND THE RENOWN.

In the historic Long Parlour at the Mansion House, the Duke of York was admitted by the retiring Lord Mayor. Sir Rowland Blades, M.P., the Master, to the honory freedom and livery of the Shipwrights’ Company. After the ceremony in the Long Parlour his Royal High ness lunched ’ with the Master and the other members of the company m the Sa The Lord Mayor, proposing the toast of Our Junior Freeman and Liveryman. His Royal Highness the Duke of York, said that in welcoming his Royal Highness they were glad to give expression to their appreciation of the ungrudging devotion he gave to the public service.-- (■• Hear, hear.” )Nor must they forget the noble lady, his wife, who, with the Duke, had done so much to popularise the Royal Family of Great Britain throughout the world. In the course of his reply the Duke said: “I am very proud to be one of you, and I shall always take the keenest interest in anything affecting your welfare You have referred to our tour through New Zealand and Australia and especially our voyage in the Renown’. Wo shall always look back on that as one ot the happiest of our experiences. I admit that there were moments when the ocean tested our endurance and our digestions very strongly, but this was no fault of the ship—(laughter)—and I warmly congratulate Sir Eustace D’Eyncourt, the designer of the Renown, on a magnificent piece of work. I understand from your Master that your marine painter, Mr Bernard Gribblc, is going to be very kind and make a sketch of the Renown after this lunch, and, in accepting it, I should like to say that the company is most fortunate in having so clever an artist as its marine painter. The casket, in its history, symbolises the British Navy, and as sailors and shipwrights you will understand what those words mean. I have served in the navy, and I know what happy relations exist between that great service and your—or, rather, I should say our —guild. Both are custodians of the great maritime traditions of this country and the dominions overseas. Both have the same ideals and aims, and as long as we cherish those ideals and aims we need have no fears for the future of the British ' Empire. As I have said elsewhere, I returned from Australia a thorough optimist. My optimism is based partly on what I have seen in those distant lands and partly on the existence of such corporations as this’. Could anyone have better reasons? ” PRINCE AMONG HIS BLIND FRIENDS.

Six hundred war-blinded men cheered the Prince of Wales when he went to the annual Armistice Ball at St. Dunstan’s, where he presented on their behalf a grandfather clock and a cigarette case to Captain lan Fraser, M.P., himself warblinded, and the chairman of St. Dunstan’s for five years. The men were packed in the ballroom, shoulder to shoulder with their wives, sisters, friends, and nurses. A jazz band played with a swing and rhythm that set feet tapping. The players were all blinded, but they arc earning their living now all over the country. They had returned for the evening with joyous proof of their training to the institution that trained them. Lieutenant Ramsden, chairman of the Reception Committee, welcomed the Prince, and every word was affirmed with nods from the upraised faces. Then the Prince stood up to speak. They cheered him again. He lifted a hand in salute, a friend’s acknowledgment of a friend’s greeting. He said he felt that he w-as addressing friends. Then he turned to Captain Fraser, guided him to his feet, and put the cigarette case in his hand. ‘‘Just a minute,” he said. “They’re going to take a picture.” And so they stood while the flashlight exploded. “ I have just presented Captain Fraser with a cigarette case,” said the Prince to his friends, " and,” with a smile that was magically reflected on his friends’ faces, “it looks a jolly nice one.” It was an evening of smiles. The man smiled who held his little daughter up to see the Prince—the daughter he had never seen.