KING AMONG BOYS
VISIT PAID TO CAMP
CALL BY ROYAL YACHT
SPECTATOR AT GAMES
ADDRESS TO ASSEMBLY
(British Official Wireless.) Reed. 3 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 2. The King spent four hours in a boys' holluay camp at Southwold before returning to the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, which left for Yarmouth, where it is at anchor tonight.
With the Queen and the Princesses, the King is on the way to Aberdeen. The King reached and left the beach of Southwold, which was crowded with holiday-makers in a rowing boat pulled by two local fishermen aged GO and (38. While in the camp, which is being held under the auspices of an industrial welfare society and is attended in equal proportions by public school boys and lads already in industrial employment, the King inspected all tents and afterwards addressed the boys in the concert hall.
He later watched a game of the camp's special variety of net ball —a mixture of association and Rugby football and other ingredients.
Before leaving His Majesty joined the boys-'in singing tire camp song with its ritual of appropriate gesture
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19699, 3 August 1938, Page 6
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