"PLAY THE GAME!"

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 212, 2 June 1920, Page 7

"PLAY THE GAME!"

PRINCE OF WALES'S MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN "A PINE AND LOYAL FUTURE GENERATION" , Before his doparturo from the Dominion. H.R.H. tho Prince of Wales wrote a farewell message to the children of Now Zealand. This message was forwarded lo the headmasters of all New Zealand schools, with the instruction that it ba read to the children on their reassembly at. school. The Eoyal Message was read at all tho Wellington schools yesterday morning. It wis as follows:H.M.S. Renown, '" Lyttelton, May 22, 1020. . Girls and Boys of New Zealand,— I am very sorry indeed that my delightful visit to Now Zealand is over, and I want, before I leave to send you my best wishes and a few words of farewell. I have asked that this message may be read out to you by your masters and teachers, and also that it may bo published in my own handwriting in your School Journal. My first wish is to thank you all for giving me, such hearty welcomes everywhere. It has been a great pleasure to me to see so many of you gathered to meet me, and I am going to tell my father and mother, tho King and Queen, what a fino and loyal future generation is growing up in this Dominion. I also want to tell you what I feel about New Zealand. It is a splendid and beautiful country, and well worth your life-long devotion. Eemember, however, that it is a young country, and that it depends upon you and upon those who follow you to carry on tho amazing rote of progress that has been acliioved by your parents and grandparents. .■ You have a splendid example be- ' fore you in your- fathers and brothers, and also in your mothers and sisters, who marched and fought, or worked and endured, to win our wellearned victory in the Great War. Remember always how much you owo to them, and try to do as much for the Empire in your own day as they havo done in theirs. I trust that you may never be called upon to figbt in another war; but you• can servo the mighty Empire, which has kept I tou safe and well, in times of peace by living straight and usefulNlives, nhd always putting your duty-to your . King, your Country, and your Flag before everything else. There arc just three things which 1. want you to bear in mind:— (1) Never consciously 6ay or do a dishonest thing. ■ . . . (2) Always remember other peoplo's interests when pursuing your, own. (3) Play for the side and play the game. Ono last word. Please do not think of me as someono very distant who came to see you once and then forgot you for peoplo hearer the 'Old Country.., I love Now Zealand, and belong to it every, bit as much as-you do yourselves. You, Now Zealand girls and boys, avo my own British kith and kin, and. I will never forget tho

wonderful first welcome which', you Rave me to my New Zealand.home. I hope this message, is not to say good-bye, ]>ut merclv "au revoir." BDWABD P. THE PRlNcTiff AUSTRALIA A GLIMPSE OP BUSH LIFE..

Melbourne, June 1. ■, The Prince of Wales is spending two days in the country. On Sunday, with Mr. Hughes, he enioyed an exhilarating gallop to Mr. Hughes's mountain home £t Sassafras, incidentally halting for "billy tea." The Prince was delighted with this aspect of Australian bush life.- He visited tho Caulfield Military Hospital on Monday, stopping at each bed and cheering the patients, ; One soldier asked if the Renown's band could •visit the hospital, and'the' Prince' consented. He was welcomed by 5000 soldiers, sailors, and nurses, and presented with a golden soldier as a paperweight on a silver. Australian, map. The Prince, in condoling with the bereaved, expressed genuine delight at renewing his acquaintance'with innumerable soldiers.—Press Assn.

A TOUR OF THE COUNTRY. (Rcc. June 2, 1.10.a.m.) Melbourne, June 1. The Prince left to-day on a tour of the country. He was enthusiasticallygreeted at Goelong, a feature of the reception being seven thousand massed school i children. He made -a brief. stay and then continued his journey—Press Assn.