ROYAL LESSONS BEGIN

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 153, 24 March 1939, Page 4

ROYAL LESSONS BEGIN

Prince Edward Learns His ABC (“Dominion” Special Service By Airmail.) LONDON, March 3. Prince Edward, three-year-old son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, Is starting to learn his ABC. He is using the same book as that, used by hundreds of children in Britain’s council schools—the “Fairy Queen Alphabet.” The Duke of Kent himself reads and explains it to his son. The Duke made a shopping expedition in the West End recently and bought a number of instructive games and picture-books so that the education of Prince Edward could begin in earnest. They include the “Zoo Book” and another showing bow to tell the time. The Prince is learning to count on an abacus, a frame with coloured beads. His mother is now looking out for a qualified nursery-governess to accompany the Royal household to Australia in the autumn, when the Duke will begin his five-years term of office as Governor-General.

New Guild Formed. Mrs. James I’ow, Dominion president of the Townswomen’s Guilds, has returned from a flying visit to Christchurch where she attendee! the first annual meeting of the Central Guild. While there she formed the Christchurch surburban guild, thus making the second in Canterbury; and there is a prospect of a third being formed shortly. • ■