ANOTHER MISHAP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20103, 23 March 1928, Page 7

ANOTHER MISHAP

PRINCE OF WALES FALLS IN STEEPLECHASE (A.P.A.-Sun) LONDON, March 15 Riding in the Guards point-to-point steeplechase at R'iseley, the Prince of Wales led to the seventh obstacle, a wide bi?ook. His horse slithered on the ar side and the reins broke. The Prince somersaulted on to his feet still holding the reins. He was not hurt and scrambled from the way of ihc other competitors.

ALARMIST RUMOURS SPEECH BY THE PRINCE Received March 22 11 p.m. (A.P.A.-Sun) LONDON, March 21. The Prince of Wales attending for the first time the Master Mariners Company dinner as Master thereof, was loudly cheered when he drank a loving cup before he passed it to the company. He sail!: “Despite silly alarmist rumours and inaccurate reports regarding me today, I would be a poor man und certainly unworthy of being Master of the Merchant Navy, if 1 could not survive* one of the slight mishaps coming to those who love to ride in a race.” Ho thanked his fellow countrymen throughout the world for sending him messages of congratulation on his appointment to the Mastership, the importance of which he had not realised until he had studied statistics showing that over 30,000 craft from liners to barges, employing 250,000 men registered in the Empire, besides 20,000 fish ing boats manned by 65,000 men belonged to Britain. , He paid a tribute to the mariners* services during the war time and hoped his Mastership would coincide with < revival of shipping prosperity.