PRINCE IN CANADA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3694, 22 September 1927, Page 4

PRINCE IN CANADA.

PARTNERS AT DANCES. BACON AND EGOS FOR TWO. Vancouver, August 22. The Canadian papers, from Montreal to Vancouver, have been featuring the photographs of the young ladies that have been chosen by the Prince of Wales for his dancing partners. The story is told that he accorded the largest measure of his favour and companionship to Miss Velerie Jones, an Ontario girl, with whom the Prince danced all night at a country club and, when the dance ended at 3.45 a.m., called for bacon and eggs for two, and shared breakfast with her. When the young lady arrived ht>me a telephone message came, asking her mother to allow her to be the Prince’s companion at a yatching picnic that day. It is all taken to be a tribute from the Prince to the memory of the girl’s father, a Canadian colonel, who was killed in action leading his men at Amiens in August, 1918. Before that he had won the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross. At the ball at Vancouver, tendered by the Seaforth Highlanders, of whom the Prince is colonel-in-chief, he danced but four times, with married women, and spent the remainder of the evening calling at the dinner of the “Old Contemptibles,” chatting to each of them, and in a friendly conversation with the Seaforths in his private quarters at the hotel where the ball was held.

It was the night of the death of the Premier of British Columbia, “Honest John” Oliver, for whom the Prince had a great admiration for his pioneering exploits as an axeman on the eoast-to-coast railway. The fact that he refrained from dancing was taken as his tribute to the veteran politician. The State ball at Government House at Vietoria was cancelled and the Prince and his brother spent the week-end privately, playing golf.