VISIT OF THE PRINCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1920, Page 5

VISIT OF THE PRINCE.

'PREPARING HIS SPECIAL TRAIN. How much time the Prince of Wales will spend travelling over the New Zealand railways is perhaps not quite realised, or for that matter not fully known yet, but at any rate it is estimated that it will be about 2" days, or a portion of each one of those days. Necessarily, comfort will be a primary consideration with those responsible for these arrangements, and, judging from the indications and preparations, his travelling quarters should be both comfortable and charming. As a matter of fact, the carriage used by His- Excellency the Governor-General when travelling will ibe used, but altered and refurnished. It will comprise a suite of three rooms, a lounge-drawing-room, a dining-room and a bedroom, and of course there will be a kitchen on the train. The furniture and hangings are now being chosen, the coloring of the lounge being carried out in Gobelin blue, and the dining-room is to. be a replica of a Jacobean room. The bedroom is to be as comfortable and as charming as possible. In addition to the train by which the Prince travels there will be two others, the luggage train, which travels ahead, and another following the Royal carriage reserved for the country's important personages. The matter of making arrangements for such a visit is not the lightest of tasks for those responsible.