PRINCE OF WALES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22328, 31 July 1934, Page 16

PRINCE OF WALES

MEMORABLE TOUR ENTHUSIASM OF PEOPLE When the Prince of Wales returned by air to London from North Wales, a few weeks ago, he left behind him thousands of people who are likely to treasure until their dying clay memories of the Royal visit. . What the Prince did not do during his three-days' tour was not worth doing, and everywhere he was greeted with amazing enthusiasm. At Wrexham, for instance, he visited a hall where a. dance for unemployed men was -in progress When he turned to go nearly everyone rushed forward cheering and waving, and he bad great difficulty in leaving. , . At Rhos. where a pit dump was being converted into a recreation ground, police constables had to march in a semicircle round the Prince when he went to lav the first sod of a cricket pitch. 1 8 .90-year-old David Hughes, of torwen, who many years ago, was a Royal driver on the Great Western Railway, ever likely to forget how the Prince shook hands with him and his wife at Glyndfrdwy? . . "I drove Queen Victoria when she visited North Wales in 1889, and I was never allowed to do more than 40 miles an hour." Mr Hughes told the Prince. " I could go a little faster when King Edward was a passenger." The Prince finished up at QueensIVrrv in pouring rain, but in spite ot that" he kept strictly to every detail of the long programme that had been mapped out for him.