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Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 69

As the sequel to a tomato throwing episode in Christchurch on election night, Douglas William Hansen, aged 19, unemployed, pleaded guilty- on Wednesday to disorderly behaviour, and was fined 20s and costs. Princess Helena Victoria and Princess Marie Louise both loaned reminders of their nursery days to a loan exhibition of treasures of famous children at Eresby House, London. A favourite doll’s dinner service which delighted the little Princesses for many years, and a highly coloured German book from which Princess Marie Louise learned her alphabet, were two of the exhibits. The first pair of baby shoes worn by the late Princess ClrchsHan, the mother of .the two Princesses and a daughter of Queen Victoria, was shown also. Matthew Arnold showed literarv talent at the ago of seven, and a manuscript entitled “ Little Pilgrim’s Progress,” written by him in pencil and inscribed “From Matt to Papa,” October 15, 1830, was loaned by Viscountess Sandhurst. Lord Baden-Powell was represented by a work entitled “ The Laws of Life,” which he wrote at the age of eight, and Sir lan Hamilton by a dancing Moor toy. There was a sketch by Queen Victoria drawn when she was a child.