AN UNOSTENTATIOUS VISIT.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13643, 7 February 1913, Page 5

AN UNOSTENTATIOUS VISIT.

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There was a complete absence- of pomp and ceremony. The King first inspected the bakery and examined the white bread. He recalled that when he first went to seu the bluejackets had to put up with weevily biscuits and maggoty flour.

His Majesty inspected the hydraulic apparatus for loading the 12-inch guns at the rate of throe rounds a minute. Engineer-Commander Turner showed him the'new machinery in the engineroom. -On seeing the mauve, white, and green upholstery of the gun-room, the King remarked that.it was mom liko a lady's boudoir, and lie led in the getier.il laughter when soiner.--.io.pointed out that they were the suffragette colours. ■

The crew introduced-the ship's Mascot, a bull pup named "Pelorus Jack." The King was photographed beneath the shield hearing the Now Zealand Arms.

A ['forwards >H*is Majesty faspected tho Iron Duke, the George V. 3 and the Queen Elizabeth. The latter is now an inert mass of ribs and plates.

His Majesty also visited the floating dock and the latest submarine.