THE PRINCE’S TRAVELS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20701, 26 April 1929, Page 14

THE PRINCE’S TRAVELS.

TRANSPORT ANCIENT AND MODERN. TRIBUTE TO MAJOR SEGRAVE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, March 10. Speaking at the annual dinner of. the Institute of Transport, the Prince of Wales surveyed the whole field of transport and gave some interesting reminiscenscs of his own travel. “ I have travelled very extensively,” ho said, " and I suppose by every kind of transport that is known. I have ridden an elephant;—l have also been chased by one.—(Laughter.) I have ridden camels; I have even pretended to ride.a bicycle; I have flown; I have also tested the reliability of the rickshaw and of the palaquia, but I doubt whether this great institute would have awarded to the rickshaw coolie or to the palanquin hearer the annual road transport gold medal or the modern transport premium,— (Laughter.) “The co-operation of those methods of locomotion in my travels, however, show that there is still room in the great world for all kinds of transport.” Later in his speech the Prince referred to Major Segravc. “ I know you would like me, while on the subject of motors, to say a word about a man , whom I would describe ns a hero—Major Scgravo. —(Cheers.) Many of you here know Major Segrave, and I happen to have had the good fortune a few days before he sailed for America to have a look at the wonderful machine, ‘ The Golden Arrow,’ and to have a talk with him. BRAVE AND SPORTING EFFORT. “ I think that without any exaggeration wc can put his effort to regain the world’s speed record on land for Great Britain as one of the bravest and.most sporting efforts that has ever been made. He had already, some two years ago, put up a record, and it was hot as if he was nev. to the game. He knew what it was, and he left this country with a car that had never even been tried out. It could uot have been. “ Perhaps we arc lucky in this country that there is nowhere at which one could go at a speed of 200 miles an hour; but it was not lucky for Major Scgravc. He never tried the car out. It was an entire experiment, and 1 am sure we all take our hats off to Major Segrave as a very brave man and a very fine sportsman. “ Wc can sympathise with him in the unfortunate event that, marred his wonderful success and triumph that his American exponent was killed.” The Prince referred to recent brilliant air feats by English flyers, among whom he paid a special tribute to Lady Bailey —including the rescues carried out by the R.A.F. in Afghanistan. “ While such a spirit of enterprise exists,” ho added, “ Great Britain need not worry about her possibilities in the air.”