PRAIRIE HALT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1939, Page 6

PRAIRIE HALT

THE?R MAJESTIES STOP TRAIN INVIGORATING WALK WARM WELCOME AT REGINA. RECORD CROWD ASSEMBLES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.REGINA, May 25. Shortly before'ten a.m., a few miles west of Broadview (Saskatchewan), their Majesties ordered the Royal train to be stopped, and with a few members of their suite took a brisk walk for a mile along the railway right-of-way, the special representative of the Australian Associated Press reports. The King was hatless, in tweeds. The Queen wore a pink frock, with a coat of light wool. Both were obviously delighted with their surroundings arid invigorated by the fresh prairie air. The Queen’s eyes sparkled when she noticed that the King and his equerries had drawn ahead. “Let’s catch them up,” she said, and broke into a run, her startled ladies-in-waiting following §uit. The Queen rejoined the King laughing and slightly breathless. During the brief departure from their programme their Majesties made the acquaintance of three Canadians whom otherwise they would not have met—a prairie gopher, a small burrowing groundhog, which the Canadians tell gullible visitors is their buffalo; the Canadian meadowlark and a small bird called the Phoebe. The Mayor’s only top. hat was apparent when their Majesties arrived at Regina, where hundreds of families in buggies and lumbering- waggons trekked to welcome them. As the sowing of spring wheat has just been completed, Regina was able to boast a record crowd of 80,000. Their Majesties --were doubly welcome throughout the Mid-West as they brought rain with them. Falls up to five inches have already been recorded. Despite p drizzle in Regina, their Majesties ordered the hood of their car to be lowered. The programme included a visit to the barracks which were the headquarters of the Royal North-West Mounted Police for forty years after their establishment. Upon the reorganisation of the famous force as a nation-wide instrument of law and order, when it was renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, its headquarters were moved to Ottawa. The local barracks have the only Police Chapel in the Empire.

LASTING PEACE MAY RESULT FROM ROYAL TOUR. AMERICAN MINISTER’S HOPE. (Received This Day, 1.0 p.m.‘ OTTAWA. May 25. Mr- Daniel Roper, the new United States Minister to Canada, told the Canadian Club that lasting peace may emerge, from the Royal visit, which was already assuming a symbolic aspect. “I doubt,” he said, “Whether: anyone can properly apprise its full significance and benefit. Maybe this visit will 'touch people everywhere in a far-reaching manner, thus pointing the way to last ing peace.”