QUIET RETREAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1939, Page 7

QUIET RETREAT

ROYAL STANDARD FLIES OVER LOG CABIN ON SHORES OF LAKE IN ROCKIES KING AND QUEEN ENJOY NOVEL EXPERIENCE. WALKS IN LARGEST PARK IN WORLD. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. JASPER (National Park), June 1. The special correspondent of the Australian Associated Press says that for the first time in history ' the Royal Standard is Hying over a log cabin on the pine girt shores of Lac Beauvert, 3470 feet up in the Rockies, where their Majesties are enjoying their first real privacy in the strenuous tour. They are living entirely alone in the picturesque pine-log cabin, the interior walls of which are decorated with the heads of cariboo, bear and moose. Their Majesties, are delighted, with their novel home. Their hosts have gone to great lengths to give them complete freedom, and even the Royal suite has been accommodated elsewhere.

On walks in the world's largest national park, on which they have made a closer acquaintance with Canadian wild life, they are accompanied only by a guide. The King secured a delightful cinema study of a bjack bear and a young, shy cub, which finally took refuge in a tree while its mother reared on her haunches in a protective attitude.-The King, who used his cinema camera at every opportunity, approached closely. This afternoon, despite a chill wind and a threatening snowstorm, the King pulling a somewhat battered felt hat down firmly, with the Queen draped in a check scarf, peasant fashion, round her head, drove in an open car to Mount Edith Cavell, 11.033 feet above sea level. Their Majesties left the car and walked two miles to investigate a glacier at close quarters, and they also studied a .10,000 peak, which, because of its shape, is called The Throne. Tonight, after watching beavers in a dam close by the cabin, they dined alone before a roaring log fire. RETURN TO BRITAIN DUE TO ARRIVE ON JUNE 22. LONDON, June 1. It is officially announced that the King and Queen will arrive at Southampton in the Empress of Britain on the afternoon of June 22.