THE ROYAL VISIT.

Shannon News, 7 January 1927, Page 3

THE ROYAL VISIT.

NAVY ARRANGEMENTS PERFECT

London, Dec. IS. The “Daily News’’ says that the members of the Duke of York’s party for this year’s tour" of the Dominions are taking the usual precautions observed by English people going to the tropics, and 1 are being inoculated against typhoid. , ' The vaccinations are interrupting their social engagements somewhat. The navvy’s reputation for serupu-, lous efficiency in carrying out the most minute details is visible in the arrangements for the Renown’s tour, especially in the efforts for the comfort of the guests. The Royal Marine barber Uden, a Kentish man, who was the Prince -of Wales’ hairdresser on his youth American voyage, and who is described as a most capable shingler, has undergone a month's instruction in waving, shingling and bobbing at a Bond Street establishment having a reputation for original ideas in hair waving, so that on the trip he may dress the hair of the Duchess and her ladies in the most perfect manner. Maids in Laundry.

Special preparations have been made in the Renown laundry to enable the maids to do the laundry work of the ladies of the party. The chef who accompanied the battleship Hood during her Empire voyage has been appointed to the Renown. The royal cabins have been fitted with wireless • installations, and the royal saloon has been supplied with a costly outfit of -cutlery and table-ware, sufficient to dine a party of 36.

The Renown will take on board stores sufficient for a voyage lastingeight months*

The officers will do a certain amount of entertaining in Australian ports. Arrangements for visits by the Australasian public to the Renown have not yet been finalised with the authorities. The Renown will carry additional Marines, to provide full guards of honour, and to complete the military display at ceremonials. She will also have the entire band of the Royal Marine School of Music, consisting of an excellent full military band, a drum and fife band, and a jazz band for dances. The bands will play ashore. Pulpit from Australia.

Australian vocational classes are constructing a pulpit for the use of the chaplain of the Renown. .Oil-tankers will refuel the Renown at Las Palmas, Jamaica, the Marquesas and Fiji. The Royal visit, will enable all interchange of amenities between British and Australian society leaders, says the “Daily NeSvs. ” Mrs. Ronald Grevillc (Dame Margaret Greviile), a favoured hostess of the younger royalties, is arranging a tour to coincide with that of the Duke and Duchess, leaving London on the Naldera on Christmas Eve.

It is suggested that the pleasures of the French Riviera, the Italian Lido, and Egypt are becoming stereotyped, and Society has decided to investigate Australia and New' Zealand, which Americans spending their holidays in Honolulu have already “discovered.’’ The Duchess of York has banned black, green, and bright red dresses on the trip, preferring cream, pink, blue and pale gold. Several of the Renown’s officers are familiar with Australia, including Lord Stradbroke’s son, Viscount Dunwieh, who is a siib-lieutenant, 23 years of age.