ROYAL PARADES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 106, 7 May 1935, Page 7

ROYAL PARADES.

SEVEN PROCESSIONS.

Miniature Pageant of Pre-war

Glories.

GLITTERING SPLENDOUR.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON, May 6.

The Royal procession, on emerging frOm the Palace, passed round the V ietoria Memorial, where massed bands of the Guards played the National Anthem as a triple guard of honour from the Navy, Army and Air Force presented arms in a Royal salute. The uniforms of the sailors in their historic naval blue, the tall Guardsmen in scarlet and the members of the Air Force in modern grey, blended behind the flashing bayonets, while 'the bearskinned Guards lining the roadway relieved with scarlet splashes the dark masses of the throngs packing the pavements. The Royal procession was a miniature pageant of the Army's pre-war glories. It wns headed by the Queen's Royal Lancers, with pennons fluttering above their 1)1 ne and scarlet uniforms. They were followed by a squadron of three Hussar regiments, their blue tunics braided with gold, and with scarlet and white busby bags. Then, amid the rumble of gun wheels and the rattle of harness chains, came a six-gun battery of the Royal Horse Artillery, one of the few as yet unmechanised. These, with their beautiful horses and mounted gun teams in scarlet, blue and gold, provided one of the finest pictures a military artist could desire. The Sovereign's Escort.

After tliat a glitter of breastplates denoted the approach of tiie Sovereigns' escort of Life Guards, preceding Their Majesties in tho golden State coach drawn by six greys. The horses were caparisoned with crimson harness with purple rosettes on the bridles and purple ribbons plaited in their manes and tails. They were ridden by trim scarlet-coated, wliite-wigged jockeycapped postillions. Tho King's coach was followed by five others with Court officials and ladies. Tho Prime Ministers of the Dominions and their wives rode in carriages. Mrs. Forbes, wife of New Zealand's Prime Minister, was wearing a frock of black georgette and lace, ermine furs and a black hat. Prime Ministers' Procession. The pageant comprised seven processions. First came the Prime Ministers of Britain and the Dominions, in six carriages, bearing Mr. Mac Donald, his daughter Ishbel, Mr. R. B. Bennett (Canada), General Hertzog (South Africa), Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lyons (Australia), Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Forbes (New Zealand), Sir Joseph and Lady Bhore (India), Mr. and Mrs. Huggins (Southern Rhodesia), Viscount and Lady Craigavon (Northern Ireland). Then came the Speaker's massive gold coach, drawn at a walking pace by splendid draught horses, the wheelers standing 18 hands high. Next came the Lord Chancellor's two carriages bearing high officers of State. These three were escorted by mounted police. They were followed by motor cars bearing close relatives of the Royal Family, and then the Duke of York's procession of two carriages, bearing the Duke and Duchess, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent, escorted by a detachment of Horse Guards. The sixth procession was that of the Prince of Wales, consisting of. two carriages bearing the Queen of Norway, the" Prince of Wales, the Duke of Gloucester; tho Princess Royal, Princess Victoria, the Earl of Ilarewood, Viscount Lascelles, and the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, escorted by Life Guards. The seventh was Their Majesties' procession of six carriages. MEMBER SHOUTED DOWN. ADVERSE AMENDMENT MOVED. (Keceived 11.30 a.m.) COLOMBO, May G. In the State Council Dr. S. A. Wickre mesinghe attempted to mo\c an amendment to a congratulatory addiess for the King's jubilee. The member was shouted down, and the addiess was adopted unanimously.