KING ALFONSO’S WORK

Temuka Leader, Issue 10488, 28 December 1929, Page 3

KING ALFONSO’S WORK

“I HAVE TO DO MY JOB.” King Alfonso, who was proclaimed King of Spain the day ho was born, over 43 years ago, has revealed his ideas of the function of a king. "If I had not been born a king,” the Spanish ruler said, “I would be working in some large motor-car factory.' If it could be done, I would like to follow the example of Peter the Great, the Russian Tsar, who travelled incognito all over Europe, and who did not shirk from taking jobs in Dutch and English shipyards and factories just to become acquainted with the latest developments in. ship-building and manufacturing. It is a ’good thing, too, for a king.

“The king is a worker, just like the majority of his people. I am a worker. I was born a monarch, not because I chose it. I have to do my job just like any other mail. “I was in England recently, and noticed the Prince of AVales occupied every day with the unemployment question, and doing his best to help find a solution of the mining situation in Britain. If the Prince of Wales is entitled to speak on industrial questions, it is because he has studied the matter from the ground up, and knows so much about the ordinary things of life.”