THE JUBILEE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 167, 29 April 1935, Page 5

THE JUBILEE

STRIKING PAGEANTRY PLANNED MILITARY AND NAVAL UNITS. MANY UNFAMILIAR UNIFORMS. AVENUES OF FLOWERING PLANTS. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 27. Every new detail regarding the Royal Silver Jubilee procession to St. Paul’s Cathedral on Monday, May 6, is eagerly read and there is a height-' ening of the general impression that the event will be the most picturesque and striking of its kind that London has seen. Many full-dress uniforms unfamiliar to the younger generation —acquainted only with those of the Royal Household Cavalry and the service kit of other units —will be worn by Dragoons, Hussars, Lancers and other branches of cavalry, as well as by the Royal Horse Artillery. Over 1600 officers and men of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines will come to London to take a share in the pageantry. Admiring crowds last night saw bt. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey brilliantly illuminated by floodlight installations. More than 50 buildings in London alone are being floodlit. On Jubilee day the street decorations will in large pai't consist of masses ot growing flowers. Regent Street, which is expending £IO,OOO on its decorations will have on each side an unbroken line of flowering plants. A tattoo of massed drums and pipers of the Royal Brigade of Guards will he held on the Horse Guards Parade on Jubilee night and on five other evenings during May. The crowds inspecting the street decorations to-day were reinforced by a m-eat army of football enthusiasts who came to see the Association Cup final match.—British Official Wireless.

CHAIN OF BONFIRES. KING TO LIGHT FIRST ONE.

(Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, April 28. The King will light the first of a chain of bonfires across Britain and Ulster !bv pressing a button at Buckingham Palace, this inaugurating the iiibilee The rejoicings will be heralded by a performance of “Lohengrin” at Covent Garden Opera House to-morrow.

AIR FORCE DISPLAY. 1000 ’PLANES TO FLY PAST. LONDON, April 27. The biggest fly-past of aeroplanes ever seen in the London area, with nearly 1000 ’planes of all types participating, will be the culminating feature of the Royal Air Force display at Hendon on June 29. This massed flight will be an impressive finale to a series of events in which 200 aircraft* drawn from more than 20 units, will take part.

THE JUBILEE TRUST. TOTAL OF £30,000 IN HAND. t LONDON, April 28. A total of £30,000 for King George’s Jubilee Trust has already been received in contributions sent direct to the headquarters of the trust at St. James’ Palace and 1 to the Lord Mayor of London’s Fund at Mansion House. This sum does not include money from collections outside London, a number of which have received large donations. The Prince of Wales is devoting many hours every day to the organisation of the fund and signs acknowledgments of all gifts, however small. They vary from one penny to thousands of pounds.

CANADA’S REPRESENTATIVE. LONDON, April 27. The Canadian Prime Minister (Mr R. B. Bennett) arrived in London this evening for the King’s silver jubilee. jubilee air mail. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s transTasman flight, coming as it does during the celebrations of the King’s silver jubilee, will be utilised, states the Acting-Prime Minister (the Hon. E. A. Ransom) for a distinctive commemoration in which Australia and New Zealand will be specially concerned. A proposal was received from the Commonwealth Government recently that a King’s silver jubilee mail should be carried by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s aeroplane in both directions, and this was readily agreed to by the New Zealand Government. The arrangements are already in hand by the Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department. According to present information, the ’plane will leave Richmond Aerodrome, Sydney, on May 14, landing at New Plymouth on the morning of the 15th. It is expected that the return

flight will commence from Ninety-Mile Beach (North Auckland) at dawn on May 17.