MEMORIAL MARRED
OUTRAGE AT RUNNYMEDE. PRINCE OF WALES ANGERED. LONDON, July 12. “It’s- a blackguardly -thing, I am very, sorry it has happened,” said the Prince of Wales, indignantly denouncing an outrage at Runnymede, where the Cheat Charter of British liberty was wrung from an English monarch in 1215. The Prince had been told by Lord Zetland that the commemoration pillars of the caretakers’ cottages erected at Runnymede had been sprayed with creosote, apparently by objectors
1 to the hy which the « historic Meadows where Magna Charta was signed have .. been presented ,to the nation by Lady F'ahh'aven in memory op her husband. Local opponents protested against the erection of the buildings a s a desecration. r ..j; The authorities fruitlessly, tried to ! obliterate the ~stains, and - when they failed they rushed’ evergreens to the spot t'o hide .the blemishes in readiness for the Prince’s unveiling of the pillars: " j s The Prince , spoke of Lady Fairhaven’s gift to preserve .the countryside.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1932, Page 3
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162MEMORIAL MARRED Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1932, Page 3
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