PRINCE OF WALES

Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1932, Page 7

PRINCE OF WALES

TALK ON THE UNEMPLOYED.

SINCERE SYMPATHY SHOWN.

London, April 27.

“Let me wish you the best of luck. I sympathise with you all,” were the words, spoken with quiet sincerity, with which the Prince of Wales concluded an impromptu speech to 300 unemployed at South Shields.

The Prince was ready to leave when he suddenly paused and said to an official: “Forgive me. May I speak to them a moment.”

His Royal Highness stood on a balcony and faced the group of grimy men, in shabby clothes, including grizzled old shipyard labourers, who had been unemployed for years, and youths who had just left school, whom the Daily Mail describes as the picture of tragedy and broken ambition, epitomised in the Tyneside’s stark distress. Nevertheless, tens of thousands of cheering people lined the roads and climbed the lamp-posts and walls. Women blew kisses to the Prince, and the crowd’s gratitude was such that the police were often powerless. GAME IN KINDERGARTEN. PLAYMATE OF CHILDREN. London, April 27. When the Prince of Wales visited a kindergarten school near Newcastle-on-Tyne during his hour in the north, he found dozens of children in brightlycoloured rompers squatting on the floor and playing a game called “mouse,” in which all must be very quiet. The Prince crept in and joined in the One three-year-old boy flicked the Prince’s tie out of his waistcoat and laughed. They all accepted him as their playmate and wanted him to stay all day. The Prince completely reversed the original arrangements for his, tour and travelled unaccompanied. Even the policemen on point duty were not able to recognise his car. He talked with housewives, who had their sleeves rolled up and were preparing their husbands’ dinners.