PRINCE IN COALFIELDS
PITIABLE SCENES. (Unitod Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 11 a.m.) LONDON, January 30. Photographs of the Prince of Wales trudging through snow and mud in the Northumberland and Durham villages escorted by crowds of miners, their wives and children, made the public realise both tlie pathos of their plight and the Prince’s fine humanitarianism. Among tlie hovels at Bontor, Tie shuddered and remarked": “Isn’t it ghastly.” He arrived without warning at one shack where lie picked up a baby and talked with the mother, who said a neighbour was worse off, where nine lived in a tiny house. The Prince of Wales said: “It makes one’s heart sick to see and hear tho conditions.” 1-Ie told an old man that the Lord Mayor’s relief would he distributed tomorrow and said: “ I hope it will make tilings better for you.” The Princo inspected the hooks of four men at East Hartford and found they worked sixteen shifts on shares for thirty-eight shillings.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1929, Page 5
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167PRINCE IN COALFIELDS Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1929, Page 5
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