PRINCE OF WALES’ TOUR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4037, 4 January 1930, Page 3

PRINCE OF WALES’ TOUR.

COMING VISIT TO AFRICA. ARRANGEMENTS ON LINER. GOES AS ORDINARY PAiS'SENGER. London, December 28. When the Prince of Wales embarks on the Kenilworth Castle on January a for Africa he will travel as ah ordinary passenger and take his meals in the dining saloon with the other passengers. This is at his own wish. Big game hunting will he an important pafrt of His Royal Highness’ six weeks’ tour. He will stay a few days at -Government House, Capetown, and thence will go inland. He lias expressed his wish to secure a rhinoceros, a lion and a buffalo. .

The Times, in a, recent article, stated : Thet Prince of Wales, with the approval of the; King and Queen, .proposes to visit Africa, early in (lie now year. It will he an entirely unofficial trip, on the linos of the expedition which the. Prince abandoned when the news of the King’s illness reached him in Tanganyika a year ago. On that occasion he had intended to travel from East to ‘South Africa; this time 1m will go from South to East.

Provisiional arrangements have been made for the Prince to sail to Capetown in the Union-Castle liner Kenilworth Castle, leaving Southampton on January 3. At Capetown he will stay at Government House as the guest of the Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, with whom he was to have passed Christmas, 1928. The Prince hopes to spend some time in big-game shooting in East Africa, and to visit a number of places which his earlier itinerary would have 'included, had it not been- cut short.

The Prince is expected in East Africa in February or March. It is stated that lie intends, if possible, to fly from Rhodesia to Kenya, and that for that purpose he will take a machine with him. At present Mir. Fiiieh-Hattpn is engaged there arranging details. It is understood that the Prince desires again to go elephant- hunting in Uganda. The Prince’s journey from Africa. to his father’s bedside last December was watched with anxious sympathy by the whole Empire. It was made at unprecedented speedy through the eo-oirdinated efforts of the British Navy (which sent the Enterprise to meet the J’riiice at Dares-Salaam and bring him as far as ißrindisi), the railways of Italy, Switzerland and France, and our own Southern Railway in the final stages.

When the Prince left, Dar-cs-Sa-laam on December 2, it was expected that the rest of his journey would take 12 days. Instead, he readied London in nine and a half days, arriving on the evening of December 11.