THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1901.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 149, 14 May 1901, Page 2

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1901.

No doubt the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall will be loyally received in the colony, but all te same a very great number of people will be very glad indeed to see their backs as they leave the Bluff. The fact is that all the* official people have been given to understand that the care of the Duke and Duchess is a quite enormous responsibility, and all sorts of precautions and safeguards have to be taken everywhere to secure the safety of the precious pair. For instance,they will not arrive anywhere or travel after dark. They will not go to any place where they could be an instant out of sight or view of or contact with the Royal escort. They will go nowhere that is not portectly clear and open on both sides. Ail the houses in which they are to stay are to be renovated and “ done up ” in the highest style of art. Every yard the .Royal party y travels, every step they take, must be ail carefully mapped out and settled long before ever they arrive in the countrj’. It .is said that the very wallpapers that are to be hung on the walls of the rooms of the houses in which the Royalties are to stay in the various towns have been expressly sent from London for the purpose. „Full details pf .a a ■

Duchess is asked to take part i.R must be furnished to the Governor and if he disapproves of anythin;* it must he altered. Nor, let it be understood, is there to be any kou-touing or hobnobbing or ‘‘ Hail fellow, well met ! ” bnsD ness with His Royal THgness. Even in the targe towns the only person to he introduced to the Duke is the Mayor, and even that august functionary has been strictly warned that on no account must he vl dress the Heir-apparent for more than ten, or, at the very outside, fifteen seconds ! Ten, or even fifteen seconds seems an all too brief and fleeting a period of bliss to reward their various Worships the Mayors for the pains and penalties they had to undergo in the wild scramble for office this pear. Yet so (heir august Highnesses have decree-1 it. Nor will the Duke be available to opyn festivities or lay promiscuous foundation stones. Nothin? of that sort can be done by a Royal Highness in New Zealand. Tim very utmost that the Duke or Duchess can do is, perhaps, to honour with their presence fo r a few moments some of the most weighty and important of thyse public occasions. The conveying of the R wal party and suite (numbering in all considerably over 100) through New "Zealand will be, to the railway officials, a positively terrible job. The handling of their baggage, which amounts to we are afraid to sav Imw many hundred tons, will itself he a formidable undertaking, while the comfort and rank of the Duke demand that entirely new and specially luxurious carriages shall be built for himself and suite to travel in. How all the New Zealand pn> gramme will pan out it is at present very difficult to say. There seem to be a vast number of cooks at work. It remains to he seen what the broth will be like. In all the chief towns there are (1) an executive committee,

supposed to have full charge of everything ; (2) some seven or eight sub-committees, who are supposed to have supremo control of thfdr own departments ; (3) a general secretary, who lias also charge of everything; (4) the Mayor, who considers himself properly the “ boss” of the whole show ; (5) the City Corporation., that guarantees ail the money and considers it should certainly have a right to say how- it should be spent ; (G) Mr J. Uoimes, 4he adininistrator-in-chief. who, on behalf of the Government;, directs and supervises everything; (7) the Eight Hon. the Premier, who mnsi have a finger iu every pie and without whose approval nothing can be quite correct; (8) His Excellency the Governor, who says he is the supreme director and supervisorgeneral in New Zealand ; and finally (9) the Duke himself, for whose approval evety detail ruurt be submitted, and everything of which he does not approve must be cut out ! What the result will 1)8 with this collection of various directing and governing persons and bodies it seems impossible for human foresight to oredict. Each and all of them will be ready to sigh, long before His Royal Highness and .party leave the country, “ Would he were gone and all were welh” The bill will be very heavy. Weil' on to £40,000 —perhaps £50,000 it will total, including municipal ami Government expenditure. A good many people will be inclined to consider this as, for a great part, sinful waste. But, after all, it is not all money thrown away by any means. The advertisement to the colony will he considerable. It helps the colony’s trade and commercial relations to be wadi and favourably spoken of in London for productiveness, wealth, ability to spend, fine scenery, hospitable people, &c*' &c. Suppose the Duke and Duchess and their large suite are very favourably impressed with their reception here and with our country generally, and that they go Home and sing our p t rais<-3 with vigour and unanimity in the Old Country—why, our fortunes will be made. Tourists will come here from all parts of the Empire, capitalists will send out their money to invest, farmers w'll come to buy land, manufacturers will come to start industries. In short, there is no end.to the visit of possibilities of the bind thal imagination can conjure up ai likely to result from our “ favourably impressing” the Duke anc Duchess and their ENTOURAGE Of such are the uses of adve,p\s mem 1 Would! that lay the lesson to heart! Newl be ha^pier^^

so, of course, would the advertisers and the public as well —for who can doubt that all would benefit and nU rapidly becoml wealthy if only the vast of advertising 7/ore, thoroughly .understood and universally practised ?