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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 275, 16 August 1919, Page 7

Prince Albert recently paid a surprise visit'as president of tho industrial Welfare Society (Boys'. Welfare Association) to tho Deplford works of E. Braljy and Co., Ltd. Ho saw the various processes of (auk making, riveting, galvanising, 1 and steel. bargo. construction, and put questions to the workers. In the riveting department the Prince drove a rivet. Lord.Devonport ha.* offered to place in the chapel of Cranleigh School, Surrey, of which he is an old boy, a memorial with artistic features, designed by someone of eminence, as part of Ihe school memorial to old"' boys who fell in llin war. Of 8l(! who served. 12S were killed or died of wounds or sickness; IRO distinctions were, gained, and 71 old bovs were mentioned in dispatches. Instead of buying timber, the. Croydon Corporation is making concrelo posts, at a saving of fls. or 10s. on each. At Swampscoti, Massachusetts, Ihe first aeroplane taxi service has been slaHed from Swampscnlf to Boston, Hie route covering tho "North Shore"- as far as Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Parcels, as well as passengers, are accepted.