TOMORROW A DAY OF MOURNING
ISSUE OF PROCLAMATIONS
A special meeting of the Executive Council has been summoned for this afternoon, when tlie first official Proclamation will be attended to. This will be a Proclamation issued under the Demise of I lie Crown Act, 1908, notifying the death of his Majesty King George V. Then there will be issued an Order in Council prescribing the observance of mourning. Tomorrow has been fixed for Ihe clay of mourning. . . ' These notices will be incorporated in a Gazelle heavily bordered in black. There has also to be issued a Proclamation in regard to the accession of the new King. This is published in a Gazette wiUuhiL black-bordered pages. Then will follow an Order in Council proscribing that the death of his Majesty, shall be proclaimed publicly from the steps of Parliament Buildings. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. His Excellency the Governor-General, Viscount Galway, accompanied, by Captain Heber Percy, A.D.C., and a nucleus staff, leaves tonight by the Limited express for Wellington. Her Excellency remains at Auckland but will probably go to Wellington later. Numerous engagements hay been cancelled, including the New Year investiture, fixed for January 30.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1936, Page 10
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