DUKE OF GLOUCESTER

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1934, Page 6

DUKE OF GLOUCESTER

VISIT TO NEW PLYMOUTH COUNCIL APPROVES PROGRAMME LATER OPENING OF BUSINESSES. DRAFT OF ADDRESS OF WELCOME. Arrangements for the reception arid entertainment of the Duke of Gloucester during his visit to New Plymouth oa January 3 are well in hand and the itinerary already drawn up was formally approved by the New Plymouth Borough Council last night. Steps have been taken to engage the Coronation Hall for the reception in case of a wet day. . ~ In view of the present economic situation the council decided that the address of welcome to the Royal visitor will be typewritten only and the cost of all arrangements, including advertising will be kept as low as possible. The Retailers’ Association will be informed that the council proposes to request business people not to open their PJ*®" mises on the day of the visit until 11.15 a.m. and the view of the association on the proposal will be invited. The draft address of welcome approved by the council is: "To His Royal Highness, Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester, K.G.: “May it please Your Royal Highness, We, the Mayor, Councillors and Burgesses of the Borough of New Plymouth, respectfully tender to you a most sincere and cordial welcome to our borough, and to the Provincial District of Taranaki. "We embrace this opportunity to express our continued loyalty to the Throne, to the persons of Their Gracious Majesties, the King and Queen, and to our Great Empire, in the binding together of which in amity and strength the Crown is the most essential link. “We recall with pride and pleasure the remarkable demonstrations of welcome and goodwill accorded to your Royal parents, to your brother, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and to Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York, during their respective visits to this Dominion and we have viewed with deep satisfaction the enthusiastic welcomes which you personally have received, in such other parts of the Empire as you have already visited. “We realise to the full the inspiring influence of visits of members of the Royal Family to the • component parts of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and the beneficent effect of such visits in uniting British subjects throughout the World in a common loyalty to the Crown, and to those great Imperial ideals upon which our Empire is based. “We earnestly trust that your visit to this Dominion may be in every way enjoyable and satisfactory, and that, when the time arrives for you to leave our shores, you will Carry away most pleasant recollections of our land, and of its loyal and devoted people. “Finally, in wishing you ‘God speed’ on the remainder of your journey, and a safe and happy return to the Homeland, we pray that your future may be attended with every happiness and prosperity. “Given under the Common Seal of the Corporation of the Mayor, Councillors and Burgesses of the Borough of New Plymouth, New Zealand, this Third day of January, 1935. EVERARD GILMOUR, Mayor. F. T. BELLRINGER, Town Clerk.