AUCKLAND'S PREPARATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1920, Page 4

AUCKLAND'S PREPARATIONS.

FINE WEATHER PROMISED. PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY. Auckland, Last Night. Fine weather to-day enabled preparations to get well ahead, and a promise of bright sunshine to-morrow to welcome tba Prince of Wales when he sets foot in New Zealand makes the hearts of Aucklanders light to-night. The city is already full of visitors, though not congested by any means, and many throngs are out watching the illuminations in the principal streets as they are put through trial runs. ThV Government information bureau had fifteen hundred beds registered, but so far only a few have been required. To-mor-row, however, the inflow of the full tide of holiday makers is expected. The latest information indicates that the Renown will arrive about eleven o'clock, and .berth at the Queen's Wharf by noon. The Governor-General will go aboard, and will be followed by the Premier and Ministers of the Crown, who will be presented to His Royal Highness. The Commander of the Forces will also be presented. The Prince lands at 12.15 p.m., ant will be received on the wharf by the Governor. After the guard of honor has been inspected, the chairman of the Harbor Board will be presented to the Prince by the Premier. The party will then walk to the wharf gates, where the Premier presents the Mayor of the city. The Royal visitor then motors to Government House, where the ceremony of presenting an address of welcome from the Government will take place, the Premier making the presentation. ThU done, the Prince returns to J ,he wharf, and receives an address from the Harbor Hoard. He then goes to the Town Hall, where he will be received by the Mayor, who will present the city councillors, after which the Mayor will present an addres* of welcome .from the citizens. On returning from the Town Hall to Government House, the Prince will receive ad-i dresses from local bodies, and at four o'clock there will be a military review in the Domain. Yachtsmen and motor boatmen propose to tender the Renown a fitting welcome, forming two lines off North Head, through which the warship will steam to its anchorage. On Sunday a special Ancac memorial service will be attended by the Prince, who afterwards visits soldiers in hospital at Narrow Neck. VISIT TO AUSTRALIA. PREPARING FOR FINE RECEPTION.' By Telegraph.—Press Aash.—Copyrljht. Sydney, April 23. A representative meeting of citizens, presided over by the Lord Mayor, decided to organise the decoration of the city streets in honor of the Prince's visit. The Mayor gave an assurance that, despite the recent resolution against; spending £SOOO on decorations the City Council would do its part in giving the Prince one of the finest receptions he had received anywhere and unsurpassed in the Southern Hemisphere.— AU3.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Melbourne, April 22. The Federal Government, at the request of the New South Wales Government, have abandoned the naval pageant to have been held in Sydney in connection with the Prince of Wales' visit.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.