Daily Gleaner, August 5, 1920
Daily Gleaner,
August 21, 1920
(By the Man on the Street).
Thousands
of persons throughout the island are
disappointed at the fact that His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales will not
visit Jamaica month. The Prince's visit has
been
postponed owing to the alarming number of cases of chicken pox in the Island. The disease has now assumed epidemic form and it is irony that the Central Board of Health who turned down the repeated recommendations of the City Council and the St. Andrew
Parochial Board to make chicken pox a notifiable disease should be the very body to recommend that the Prince should not come to Jamaica!
Daily Gleaner, February 3, 1927
Disappointed St, Ann
It
was a real disappointment to the St Ann
people that
the weather prevented the Duke
and Duchess from
taking the trip through
the Fern Gully to Ocho Rios. This
is
one of the best bits of scenery in
Jamaica, and of its
kind quite unique.
Even in a pouring rain it would be
wonderful, and I think it was a mistake to change the
route. The difference in
distance was only a matter of
about ten
miles; and if their Roya1 Highnesses had
to
drive through rain, it didn't much
matter what road they
went by. Considering
that preparations had been made
to greet
them, and that numbers of persons were
gathered at different points of the route,
I think it was a
pity to disappoint
them. We can't always have "Queen's
weather," and it should not have been
forgotten that
our visitors are more accustomed
to rain than sunshine.
They had fine
weather for the first part of their
trip from
Kingston to Moneague via Bog
Walk and Mt. Diablo,
which enabled them to see to advantage some of the best scenery that Jamaica has to offer.
Stephen McKenna in an article in the Times of London, April 28, 1923 -
'The
two-mile tunnel of Fern
Gully is pure
Devonshire'
River Falls, and the beautiful Fern Gully
are also near Moneague.
J. POWTER, Director, Jamaica
Government Railway,
in Baldwin Locomotive Quarterly. (1928)
