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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 285, 1 December 1934, Page 9

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LONDON CALM AGAIN. End of Great Public Festival For Royal Wedding. TRIBUTE TO RADIO SUCCESS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, November 30. The Lord Mayor of London received a telegram from the Duke and Duchess of Kent stating: "We join, in thanking the citizens of London for their good wishes and feel deeply touched by their kind thought of us on our wedding day.—George and Marina." After yesterday's celebrations London this morning resumed its normal life. The festivities, however, continued long into the night. Restaurants and theatres were packed, and for hours great crowds walked through the streets inspecting the decorations. The crowds were thickest at the Palace and at Westminster, and queues waited until a late hour to pass through the Abbey, where everything had been left as it was during the --wedding service, even to the silken cushions on which the bride and bridegroom kneeled before the altar. There are general tributes to the unparalleled technical feat by the engineers of the British Broadcasting Corporation in achieving such a wonderful relay of I the Abbey service, and to the police I arrangements whereby the unprecedented crowds were managed with the utmost smoothness and good humour. The King and Queen are leaving Buckingham Palace to-morrow to spend a few days at Sandringham. The Duke and Duchess of Kent have arranged to stay at Himley Hall, the home of the Earl of Dudley, until the middlo of December, when they will pay a short visit to Buckingham Palace. Later they will visit Sandringham for Christmas.

! PRINCE AT • CINEMA. Wild Cheering by London Crowd. KING THANKS THE POLICE. (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, .November 30. The King paid a striking tribute to the London police by dispatching a message to the Metropolitan Commissioner, Lord Trencliard, expressing liis entire satisfaction with the wedding arrangements and his sincere thanks to all ranks for their tactful and efficient handling of the vast crowds. The Prince of' Wales attended a Strand cinema premiere on behalf of a children's hospital. The crowd was so dense that the Prince was imprisoned in his car for several minutes, and all traffic was held up. After police and attendants had forced a way, His Royal Highness entered the cinema, and the crowd then rushed the vestibule, cheering wildly. The cheers were renewed inside when a newsreel picture of the Royal wedding was screened. POST AS GOVERNOR. Duke of Kent May Take Position In a Dominion. RECOVERY IN HEALTH. LONDON, November 30. The "Evening Standard" says that, following his service in the Foreign Office, it was hoped that the Duke of Kent would become Governor-General oi one of the Dominions, but his health at that time had not improved sufficiently to carry out this plan. His recent tour of South Africa showed that he had overcome his earlier physical weakness, and possibly in the near future lie may become GovernorGeneral of a Dominion. A FEW DAYS' QUIET. ROYAL COUPLE AT HIMLEY. (Received 12.30 p.m.) . LONDON, November 30. Newspapers, which yesterday carried hundreds of thousands of words of the wedding, to-day barely mention the couple, respecting the wish that they be allowed a few days of privacy. The Duke and Duchess rode in the park at Himley Hall before breakfast and golfed in the morning. CELEBRATING. LONDON GOES CARNIVAL MAD. LONDON, November 30. London went carnival mad last night. Never had there been such crowds in West End streets since the armistice. Hotels, restaurants, theatres and cinemas were all crowded out. Gala dances lasting all night were held at many hotels.