THE PRINCE'S WELCOME.

Wairarapa Age, 10 August 1920, Page 4

THE PRINCE'S WELCOME.

Commenting on tho absence of several well-known industrial leaders at the official welcomes on the occasion of the recent visit of the Prince of Wales and the luke-warmness of others, which, of course, represented only a very small portion of the inhabitants of the Dominion, tho Now Zealand Churchman rather tersely remarks: — "Some members of Parliament and some other citizens may have refused to join in,the official welcome to tht Prince, but tho children of tht Dominion have more sense than some adults. The children's welcome has been most hearty, thorough, and spontaneous, and tho reasons are, first, that tho little ones are attracted by the Prince's personality—his genuine and ungrudging good nature—and, next, by the fact that he is the visible embodiment of Protection. Children love those who understand them, and trust those who take good care of them. In tho Prince they recognise one who has tho heart of a boy, and also ono who stands for the good order and government that makes secure the homo. They might not be able to put into formal words of an essay their sense of what the British Throne means to the safety, well-being, and poaco of the Empire, but intuitively thoy know that so long as citizens aro loyal to the King there will bo tho security and tho happiness of homo for the youngest of his subjects.' Their unlogieal loyalty stands in marked contrast to tho illogical disloyalty of the self-acknowledged Bolshevik element in tho Dominion."