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THE opening of the Empire and Commonwealth Games was a “wonderful performance” said the Duke of Edinburgh today.
Speaking at a luncheon in Cardiff Castle, the Duke said he was delighted the Empire Games were being held in Cardiff.
“How impressed I was by the arrangements which had been made and the opening ceremony. It was a wonderful performance and I congratulate you.”
It was later officially stated that the Queen would not be able to visit Wales and the Empire Games.
It was announced from Buckingham Palace that on the advice of her doctors, the Queen has decided with much regret that she would not be able to undertake any public engagements before the end of the month.
The Duke of Edinburgh will carry out the programme arranged for the visit to Wales and the closing ceremony of the Games. THE four-man Canadian fencing team – one of the Maple Leaf bright hopes for the Empire Games – were all receiving hospital treatment at St Athan today.
Fencing Schwende, team said: “I manager think we Carl are victims of your Welsh weather.”
Rubbing his fighting arm ruefully, he said: “We are all getting massage and heat treatment for persistent pains in shoulders and back.
“Actually we find it damp here at night and this change in the air must have got into our bones. We are rather worried as we have a very strenuous fencing schedule in the Games.”
He added: “We don’t want to complain because the facilities and hospitality here at the village are simply wonderful, but we did ask for our hut to be heated several nights ago and we are still waiting for something to be done. I understand that the two girls in our fencing team have heating in their hut and they have felt no ill-effects.” FORMER Welsh rugby international Allen Forward, above right, rescued a woman from drowning in a pond near Pontypool early today.
Forward, a police constable, was called to the pond a 4.45am by a passer-by who had seen a woman in the water.
He waded in and dragged the unconscious woman to the bank and revived her with artificial respiration.
The woman was taken to Pontypool and District Hospital and was said to be recovering. REJECTING a petition by a Pwllgwaun woman on the grounds of her husband’s desertion and cruelty, Mr Justice Wallington said in the Divorce Court at Glamorgan Assizes today: “She seems to me to have a wholly wrong view of the personality, temperament and disposition of her husband and regarded herself as superior to him socially.”
A decree nisi on the grounds of desertion was granted to the husband and referring to his impression that the wife regarded herself as socially superior to the husband, the judge said: “She was very touchy and ready to take offence at anything, and sometimes nothing.”
One of the reasons he could not accept the wife’s testimony was because the latest act of cruelty alleged in her petition was nine years ago, said the judge. He added that he found the wife had deserted the husband and not he the wife. THE Lord Mayor of Cardiff (Alderman A J Williams) today opened an information kiosk on the Cardiff Castle moat, less than three days after the need for it was stressed by a South Wales Echo reader.
The report appeared in Tuesday’s Echo.
On Wednesday the Lord Mayor rang the City Surveyor, Mr DG Roberts.
At midnight workmen from the surveyor’s department began erecting the kiosk.
And a bare 24 hours later – 24 hours of hustle and bustle – the job was completed.