ROYAL FAMILY VISITS GRAVE OF RHODES

Chronicle (Levin), 17 April 1947, Page 5

ROYAL FAMILY VISITS GRAVE OF RHODES

Received Wednesday, 10.20 p.m. LONDON, April 16. The Premier of Eouthern Rhodesia, Sir Godfrev Huggins, presented a £10,000 eheque subscribed by tlie people of the colony, to Frincess Elizabeth as a 21st birthdav present, reporth Reutor's correspondent at Bulawayo. The money will l>e used for the inter change of Rhodesian and British young men and women to increase tlie mutual knowledge and understanding of the two countries. Coutributions to the t'und are still coming in. The King and Queen drove througii Iree-limed, gaily-decorated streets to Govcrniuent House, Bulawayo, where they attended a garden party, says Heuter's correspondent covering tlie Royal tour. A thr-ee-year-old boy, Ronnie Mitchel! who had becoine separated -from liis parents, made his way to -the. dais o>n Llie liandstand and climbed up, j'ust be fore tlie Royal Family arrived, on the sea! reserv-ed for his ilajesty. The police rushed up the stairs and escorted him down. Their Majesties and the Princesse.elimbed the last niile up the Matop" iiills, 30 miles outside Bulawayo, to pay a tribute to Cecil Rhodes, whose gravc is at ihe top. The grave overlooks country which lacks vegetation, and an imincnse vista of brown, rock-strewn hills. Later the Royal family left t'o.' Uafeking.