GREAT TOC H FESTIVAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 841, 9 December 1929, Page 9

GREAT TOC H FESTIVAL

THOUSANDS ACCLAIM PRINCE GROWTH OF MOVEMENT Reed. 9 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. The Albert Hall was thronged when the Prince of Wales, General C. G. Dawes, the United States Ambassador to Britain, Lord Plumer and Lord Forster attended a Toe II festival. The assemblage was even more uproarious and enthusiastic than on the previous night. When the Prince of Wales took the platform it seemed that the building actually shook, while thousands waved their programmes* giving a snowstorm effect. The Prince announced that Sir Charles Wakefield had purchased and endowed the original Talbot House at Poperinghue, that the Duke of Westminster, in memory of his mother, the Countess of Grosvenor, had given two houses in St. George’s Square, thereby establishing another “mark”; also that the full-time padre endowment fund had increased from £62,000 to £IOO,OOO. Great cheering greeted the Prince when he welcomed the fact that Germany had joined the movement. He said the movement was increasing vearly, but they must be most careful that “all the members pulled their weight. He added: “I believe they all do. I merely utter the waruiug iest people think they may become members merely for the asking.” The Prince lit 40 new lamps, including two from New Zealand (from Christchurch and Dunedin), and also a lamp in memory of “Woodbine Willie.”