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Waikato Independent, Volume XX, Issue 2317, 12 October 1920, Page 5

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PRINCE ARRIVES HOME

MAGNIFICENT WELCOME

NATION UNPEIGNEDLY GLAD. (A. and N.Z. Assn.) (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, October 11. The Prince of Wales arrived in glorious weather. He had a magnificent and enthusiastic welcome from the enormous crowds along the route. Victoria Station was gaily beflagged. The distinguished assemblage admitted to platform included the Duke of Connaught. Prince Arthur. Llody George, Bonar Law and other Cabinet Ministers Lord Beatty, General Trenchard, Bishop of London. Lord Mayor, Chief Justice, Fisher, Allen and Agents-General. Queen Alexandra arrived at 12.10 followed five minutes later by the King wearing an Admiral uniform, the Queen and Prftieosscs Victoria and May. The King stepped across the platform and conversed with Lloyd George and Ministers for five minutes. As the early train steamed up to the platform the Prince of Wales dressed in a naval uniform was standing looking from His car, his face flushed with boyish excitement at his homecoming. Immediately opposite the carpeted platform were bold white words on a red background “Well done, welcome borne.” The King and Queen entered the train and a few moments later the Prince emerged and kissed Queen Alexandra, the band playing “God Bless the Prince of Wales.”

The King did not conceal the pleasure he felt in the reunion and smiled as he chatted with Lloyd George and others. The Prince followed by his brothers shook hands with the personages on the platform, including Fisher and Allen, before he and the King inspected the King’s Company of Grenadiers. A little later the assemblage faced the photographers and as the Royal carriage drew up Mr Fisher called for three cheers for the Prince. Those were heartily given, the Prince smiling throughout. Preceded by scarlet outriders the splendid procession moved off, the Prince in the first carriage ,the King and Queen in the next. The cheers of the huge crowd outside marked the opening of a triumphal procession through the principal thoroiighfaros ofLondon, the city’s millions evincing unfeigned delight. As the procession traversed the miles of streets en route to Buckingham Palace, cheers sounded along the whole route, punctured by coo-ees. The weather was glorious and reminiscent of a mild Australian summer day.

THE ISLE OF THE BLESSED PARTY PREPARING TO SAIL POLITICS BARRED (Received 11 a.m.) ■ (A. and N.Z. Assn.) LONDON, October 11. The 11th of November will see the departure of the expedition, headed by Rhodes Fisher, F.R.G.S., with a mixed party, all professional or business men, including clergymen, some taking their wives and families seeking for a blessed taxless isle in the South Seas, where they intend to live a happy simple life forgetting taxes and by the taxmaster be forgot. Rhodes is inundated with applications from thousands of disgruntled taxpayers. The party have purchased the schooner yacht “Medora” commanded by Capt. Charles Kerry, a notable mariner, who has rounded Cape Horn thirteen times. They will journey till the island is secured, meanwhile they will live aboard in perfect freedom. One golden rule is that politics are barred.