A ROYAL BABY.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1926, Page 3

A ROYAL BABY.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, April 20. tills Duchess of York lias been accouched of a daughter: royal birth. [“Sydriey Sun” Cables.] (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) London, April 21. The Duke of York’s baby was born at 2.'10 this morning, at the residence of the Dutchess’ parents. A society paragrapliist says that when the King heard that the Duke proposed renting a West End house for tho accouchement owing to inconvenience and the doctors and relatives journeying between London and White Lodge at Richmond Park, bis Majesty strongly k disapproved, expressing tho wish that Ik tho child, which might ascend tho Throne, should not ho born in a hired lliouso. The Strathmore’s immediately placed their town house at the Duke’s" disposal. ROYAL BTRTJT. (Recoived this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, April 21. Tho fact that the Home Secretary (Sir W. Joynson Hicks) was summoned to Bruntoii Street, when the Duchess of York's baby was expected, illustrates the importance of the event from the point of view of the Home Office, as the succession to the Throne is tho first in the male line, and at present the new Princess is the only child horn to a son of the reigning sovereign. Her position can only to modified by the issue of the Prince of Wales or birth of a son of the York’s.