PRAISE FOR “STEVE.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 660, 13 January 1933, Page 7

PRAISE FOR “STEVE.”

Prince Talks With Jockey’s Mother. (Special to the “ Star.”) LONDON, December 6. The Prince of Wales recently made a two-days’ tour of Lancashire, where he has seen for himself what is being done to help the unemployed. He has talked to men and women, heard the difficulties against which they have fought, and gained first-hand knowledge of what the unemployed are suffering and of what is being done to keep up their spirits and to keep them fit. When he toured St Helens, Widr.es and Warrington, all along the miles of roads through which he motored thousands stood in drenching rain. Before he started on his tour he received, at Knowsley Hall, ten men ofthe rescue team who were the first to descend the Ashton-in-Makerfield pit, Wigan, after the recent disaster. “ Touched ” Por Cigarettes. At St Helens he met a man who had seen him in France. It was a boxing instructor, W. Cullen ,who was in charge of a boxing display. He had come in contact with the Prince during the Battle of the Somme. “You were going into the line,” said Cullen, “as I was coming out with a crowd of bombers, and we 4 touched ’ you for some cigarettes.” As Cullen smiled the Prince said: “ Now you smile like that I remember 3 r ou quite well.” While watching girls at work in a girls’ institute he asked one of them about her employment, and she tcld him that she was on the stage with a dancing troupe, but at present had no engagement. At Widnes people on each side of the streets waved cloth caps, shawls, flags and streamers. When he stepped from the car the crowd made a dash towards him and broke through the police cordon. At Warrington he stopped at -he home of the mother of Steve Donoghue, the jockey, shook hands with her and said:— " Your son has ridden many a good winner, and I hope he will go on adding to his victories. There is no cry on a racecourse more popular than that of ‘ Come on, Steve At the end of his tour the Prince expressed his pleasure at the response made to his appeal for the last January.