The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-20
Prince Of Wales Has Become Keen Business Man andLooks
 Carefully After Big Estate
As Duke of Cornwall He Has Immense Mines Oyster Beds, Breeding Farms and Thousands of Tenant Houses in London-Young Prince Applies
 Himself Closely to Studying Business
By HAND FEN CHURCH

i offices of the Duchy of Cornwall, which
 are in Buckingham Gate, just across the street from Buckingham palace, the royal residence in London, and there de-
 votes several hours to studying balance sheets and with the assistance of the duchy officials, looking over statements which tell an extremely interesting story Among other things they inform his royal highress how much he has made during the current year from the sale of the oysters which he now grows in the es- tuary of his attractively named Hel river, near Falmouth, and also what he derives from the sale of the practically wild ponies which he breeds on Dartmoor and 'crosses" with an Arab blend from the Saharan desert.
 These balance sheets and statements also inform his royal highness how much
 has come to him through post greats, which sound like new variety of break fast food, but which are really rental funds, and also through what are quaint ly termed white rents He also learns what he has made through the sale of any unclaimed wrecks that may have have been cast up on the Cornish coast, | for the proceeds from all such belong to | him, as Duke of Cornwall, as do also | those from any stranded whales or stur- geonS and from any gold or silver dlscoV- i cred in the duchy.
 | The princes profits from the courts of 1 law throughout the duchy that is from 1 fines etc. are also shown in these faScln- l ating reports, ard likewise his royal high ness "'casual profits as they are termed, | from the personal estates of deceased per | sons dying in the duchy without kin. This l to name only few of the many and ex- ceedingly picturesque items which are l contained in the documents which the prince scrutinizes with so much care and | intelligence.
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 1 The extent of the duchy Of cornwall, | which includes, besides oyster beds and | stud farms, extensive and valuable house
 property in London, tin and coal mines l in Cornwall and Somersetshire, several | private farms and much agricultural land
 that is cultivated by the princes ten antry, is upwards of 124,000 acres. The | revenue from this estate for the year just !, past was, roughly, 5000 net, and of this | goodly sum- after deductions representing | expenses of management, donations to
 charities and outlay for the benefit o1
 the estate, G30000 or $150,00O was paid over
 to the prince It is just as well for his royal hghness, by the way, that he has
 the dllchy of Cornwall to provide him
 with an income, and such tidy income too because, as it happens, the heir to the throne is left entirely unprovided foI in the so-called "civil list,' as the sal
 aries paid to the King, to the Queen | Mother and other members of the royal family are collectively termed.
 | As demonstrating the princes keen in terest in his duchy properties, and his de- l termination to become personally ac' quainted with every section of it and | every detail in connection with it's man agement I am told that he is planning
 an early visit to his house property in the Remington district of London, working | class district, where he owns about 12' acres This visit is to be of an ab- ] solutely private nature, as the young roya landlord wants to see things for him
 self as he would not be able to do were
 the affair previously advertised in thu
 press or if any of the ordinary formal
 ities and ceremonials connected with hi! movements as royal parsonage were in
 dulged in.
 As a ground landlord the prince ha!
 shown himself in complete sympathy witt
 the spirit of the times, namely with thu
 movement to provide decent homes for th' toilers at low rentals, instead of the hoy
 els and rookeries which, until compara lively recently, were thought in mos
 parts of this country to be good enougl } for them. As one of the first steps il
 this direction, number of empty house
 in Remington road are at once to be con
 verted into flats for two families at ; yearly rental of $100 (G20) flat. Whei
 King Edward was Duke of Cornwall ; big rehousing scheme on the duchy es
 tate in Remington was begun. but i ! had to be abandoned on account of thu war This scheme is now being contin