On Friday week the King visited the Royal Agricultural Show
at Bristol. There was an enormous attendance, the King having chosen the first "shilling day" for his visit. In his reply to the address of the Lord Mayor the King spoke with appreciation of the introduction for the first time into the show of a section illustrating processes of agriculture practised in the British dominions. On Monday the King and Queen left London for Lancashire to stay with Lord and Lady Derby at Knowsley. The whole week has been spent in visiting the industrial districts south of a line from Black- pool to Come, on the Yorkshire border. There have never been any Royal visits quite like these sympathetic and thorough examinations of the conditions under which the great industrial communities work. The glass, cotton, print- ing, and engineering industries were all seen, and the King and Queen took an evident pleasure in conversing with the people at work. It is apparently the intention of the King and Queen to acquire personal knowledge of every working district in the kingdom. Since last year South Wales, the West Riding, and the Potteries have all been visited. The work undertaken by the King and Queen is much harder physically and mentally than most people imagine, but it is work well worth doing.
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