THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1921, Page 11

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

DOING THE RIGHT THING. In his book on the Prince of Wales’ visit to Australia and New Zealand, Mr. Everard Cotes, who was a newspaper correspondent on the tour says:—“A characteristic immediately perceived is the Prince’s plain delight in giving pleasure, his obvious satisfaction in doing ire ehli/.ess 'fetofieS 1 disregard of physical fatigue in the desire to take out of himself every ounce that could be given to the gratification of public gatherings. There is never a hint of boredom in his face or bearing. Thus the bond of sympathy is complete. The people are there and he is there for the same purpose, and nothing breaks the circuit of goodwill. There was something naive and touching in the constantly possessive note that hailed him ‘Ours’ from the wharves of Sydney to the string-bark avenues of Perth ; and to this claim also something in the Prince responds with an unselfishness that might be the supreme lesson of kings. The Prince’s personality is greatly deepened and broadened by his speeches, whichjjn their simplicity and directness are perfectly the expression of himself. They never aggregate and they never fail short. No small importance of the tour lies in the way it has brought out the reality of the tie of blood. It is no* vague sentiment that binds together the various branches of our people, but a unity that lives. The part of the Prince of Wales has been to waken a new consciousness throughout the Anglo-Saxon world. He stands for all that joins us and for all that we a* v&BB we ar*