PRINCE HENRY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18597, 7 January 1935, Page 9

PRINCE HENRY

NELSON’S RECEPTION TOWN EN FETE HAPPY R.S.A. GATHERING (Ter Press Association.) NELSON, last night. Nelson's reception to the Duke of Gloucester was Auckland’s welcome m miniature, with the entire tovin en fete. The sightseers were excellently’controlled and the acceptance of the Royal visitor as generous-as the sunshine which flooded the picturesque scene. There was a separate children’s demonstration, wjiere the Duke made another lasting impression on the young mind. It ranked with the Wellington and Wanganui gatherings as au inspiring spectacle. With his face beaming, the fluke walked ‘among the children and spoke a word here and a word there while the elated youngsters cheered until it seemed as though the air had found a giant's tongue. R.S.A. REUNION ATTENDED

Sitting successively among various groups of “Diggers,’'’ conversing! with animation and laughing and joking with the men, and joining heartily in smgmg war-time marching* choruses, the Duke of Gloucester won the lifelong! affection and admiration of several hundred Nelson ex-servicemen, whose annual reunion he attended on Saturday night. There was a refreshingly informal atmosphere and good fellowship _ about the proceedings, His Royal Highness entering into the spirit of the occasion and proving himself as charming a mixer as Ins elder brother. With his chief of staff, .Major-General R, G. H. Howard-Vyse and the equerry, Captain Schfeiber, lie left the official table and they took their seats among! the returned soldiers and exchanged experiences with them. Some of the men had served in Palestine, where General Howard-Vyse had a command during the War.