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“The Prince of Wales’s Australian tour will add something like 23,1KK) miles to his travel record” says the London “Evening Standard,” “and give him the distinction of being, for his age easily the most travelled Prince in all history. His tour of Canada last autumn, including visits to Washington and New York, covered fully 17,000 miles That makes a. total of 40,0(K) miles between August, 1919 and October 1920, which works out at an average ot nearly 100 miles a day, spread-over the whole fourteen months. When one thinks of tho hundreds of public lunctions crowded into the very brief periods of ‘rest’ during this itinerary it .s safe to say that none hut a super-1 mice could do i^.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1920, Page 3
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