PRINCE OF WALES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1932, Page 5

PRINCE OF WALES

ADVICE To HOTEL-KEEPERS

FALLACY ABOUT CASINOS.

,LONDON, my 9. The Prince of Wales was chief guest at the forty-second, annual dinner of the London Cornish Association (of which is vice-patron), Mr Justice Hawke was one of the speakers, and Miss Alma McGruer (Auckland) was one who contributed to the musical programme. The Prince remarked that Cornwall was suffering because her two. main industries—tin and china clay—were in a greatly depressed state. The county should therefore concentrate on her other great assets—her farm produce and horticulture, tand tourist traffic. Before the Prince left the dinner he was presented with a huge bowl of Cornish cream, which he took with him in his car to York House. His Royal Highness referred to the fact that Mr Justice Hawke, in proposing his health, had mentioned that he had been Duke of Cornwall for 21 years. “There is an old saying that a mau Li as old as he looks. I would like to change that round and say that a man is as old as he feels. I do not feel more than twenty-one to-night,” he remarked with spontaneous cheerfulness. The Prince gave sound advice to British hotel keepers, which is sure to yield good results if acted upon. “We have never really understood the hotel industry as it is understood abroad,” be said. “There is no reason why we shoud not, and if this Association finds that there is some hotel in some Cornish resort which does not seem to get along, let them get an expert from abroad to train the personnel of the hotel. We need not be ashamed to do that. They have done it to us, and why should we not do it? I am certain that it would make a great deal of difference to the tourist traffic in Cornwall. “People are accustomed to Continental hotels. .Vi have travelled a great deal on the Continent, and I think it is an absolute fallacy that English people go abroad only casinos. When people 'the?*’ may go to casinos, but thcycgO mail#, for the climate.

‘‘Usually they are people who have retired from business and do not wish to. take part in anything very strenuous. But they d<> not wish to walk up and down an esplanade all day. They want to look at something. I believe that if resorts in Cornwall could provide something for them to look at people would go there more and more. “IT the winter seauon has not been successful one of the reasons may have been the climate, but another reason may bo that we do not provide those people with the kind of accomodation they would liko to have if they had been abroad.

“There is also the important point of advertisement-. Cornwall does not advertise, hut we must all advertise. J have said that quite often.”