THE PRINCE AT HONOLULU.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3462, 16 April 1920, Page 5

THE PRINCE AT HONOLULU.

INDULG-ES IN SURF ~,RIDING.

Received 9.35 a.ln.. ‘ HONOLULU, April 15.

One day only was spent in Honolulu by the Renown, but enough romance, interest, and unusual entertainment was compressed into the brief visit of the Prince to suffice for _a' week. A whisper went.round early in the day that the Prince proposed to try surfriding at Waikiki beach quietly ‘by. lliinself, after a public exhibition of surfing riding byexperts was concluded. live:-ybody in the city heard the whisper within half an hour, as if it had been shouted by San Deig’o’s “magma vox.-” A large proportion of the entire population of Honolulu assembled in bathing costume: on ‘the beach late in the afternoon, bathing being entirely suspended. The jetty from the Manor; Hotel was packed from end to end with camera men and cinema operators, who erected machines on native outrigger canoes and waited in the. surf in imminent risk of catastrophe, for-the shore was obscured by crowds of rainbow—eolour—ed bathers. Cheers went up when the -Prince emerged for a little quiet enljoynient from the new wing of the hotel. He wore an ordinary swi.mlning costume, blue edged with red stripe. Duke Kalianainoku, the iiainous Hawaiian swimmer, attended with a native outrigger canoe, anxd amid en---thusiastic cheers ‘the Prince and his party shoved off, a Hawaiian ’iaki.ng the steering paddle. The Prince occupied athwart, taking the paddle next the Hawaiian party. They paddled out in the middle, coming back at the :s'-peed of an express train, surrounded by cinemas and eainera men and observers with powerful glasses. Frequent runs were made in the same way. Members of the crew declared it was like toboganning. Surf riding in the afternoon was a. huge success.

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RETURNED SOLDIERS’ RAIL PASSES. The secretary of the '].‘-i_. mp 3 and District Returned Soldiers’ Association l=n.,s been advised by the Def.'en.-e ofliee that free rail passes \-'-I (we issued to all returned soldie.-:'s frezu their ‘home stations to the nearest. point of reception of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Returned soldiers desirous of attending ‘the reception at Wanganui sl'¢u"'J apply to the .~.‘e'3!‘-‘¢tr"l'S’ --‘ the I‘-iihznpe ‘Returned S-o'c'.‘el'.s' .='-..5.-cuei:L----tion for a rail pass-, which will then ne applied for by the secretary, am} the pass will be sent direct to the appliean‘: by the Defence Office. It should be noted that no application for rail pass will be considered by the Defence, Ofifice unless the application is endorsed by the secretary of the Returned Soldiers’ Association. Appli. cants who are not members of the Taihape Association must give satisfac. tory proof that they are returned soldiers; otherwise their applical~io,;s. C-a.nno't be endorsed_