PRINCE OF WALES

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5881, 8 April 1920, Page 2

PRINCE OF WALES

GUEST OF GOVERNMENT,

At Auckland and Wellington, Sir Francis Bell stated recently, the Prince |if Wlilos would !stay iat Government House as the guest of t'he GovernorGcj.icral and the Countess of Liverpool. Except in those cases aind the .single further exception a? the deer-shooting in the Wafrarapa, t'he Prince would not be privately entertained. At Walagamu.i and other places the GowrnnV&nt had secured the whole accommodation of the several hotels at which the Prince would .stop, in order to make full provision for hife privacy and comfort. At Napier, Ohristcihurch, alad Dun.edOn the principal clubs had generously placed their clubhouses at the disposal of the Government, and the Prince would stay there with the chief members of his staff as the guest a: the Govei'nment. Wherever it may be deemed 'necessary or desirable for a mounted escort to attend the Prince of Wales in. the Dominion, it v,iil3 be arranged by the police authorities. During inspection of troops at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, aind Duncdin, no civil official will be permitted to accompany the P'rilrice. The decorations to be presented by the Prince will be limited to those Uritis'h decoratwas awarded for war service. No war medals, long service medals, or ioreign decorations will be presented.

HIS PLAINNESS TS DRESS. If the Prince dresses whom .Vi New Zealand on the same plain as that which' he made his rule in Canada, he will wear in seaboard towns the uniform of a captaiu of the navy, and in large inland towns that of a colonel of Welsh Guards. "When presumably the civilians wtfoso duties bring them into contact with him on ceremonial occasions prefer to

wear tall hats alad morning dress, he w,ill do the same, though lie has said "the people can wear whait tliey like." His Royal ■ Highness himself has all a boy's horror of "toppers,"' and in Canada, in all the smaller places, ho

appeared ilu a, suit of grey mufti, aj.id liked, for their own sakes, to sec other people do the same. Probably, also, he would like the speeches which he will be called upon to make a'nd listen tb to be as few and as short as possible—out of consideration! for the feelings of others a.s well as his own.

Little talk ah'd lots of exercise would be a programme that Would be lively to fit in with his secret wishes better than any other. He is a delightful boy, without a!n atom of "side." He toild the members of the Pi-ess Club in W.'ashingjtom that cue of the things that pleased him in coming to the States was to find "that you are nearly as democratic as we are." He might well have said, "as 1 am." For with all his sense of his great position and rpspohsibiKties as heir to the throne of the Commonwealth of British natjoMSj he is democratic to the core.

One of the first things he (Vd on arriving i|n Canada Was ! fco convert as many as possible of the garden parties arranged in his humour into public receptions, to .which anyone who chose to walk in from the street, down to littlo bbys iin ragged clothing, wtere cordially invited. He wanted to meet face to face as mauiy as he could of the people over whom he will some day be called upon to reign, and not only the gentlemen in top baits. And as his right hand quickly boro witlaess, he did.