ASCOT ABORIGINES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 130, 4 June 1935, Page 7

ASCOT ABORIGINES.

FAMOUS NEW STAND.

NEW DECORATIONS.

PLANNED BY QUEEN. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, May 11. This great jubilee year is remarkable in more respeete than the Royal processions and the decorations that have accompanied them. A sum of £20,000 is being spent on improving the King's stand in the Royal enclosure at Ascot, in readiness for the jubilee meeting in June. Ascot, with its distinctive fashions in both men's and women's clothes, has always had an outstanding attraction for visitors from Australia and New Zealand, and the tribute which has been paid to the Dominions in the alterations will be greatly appreciated. An official states that the stand will be the finest of its kind in the world.

The- new building is keystoned with cai-ved heads of the natives of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and India. New floors are being laid, new doors and. windows put in. The whole of the work is being carried out in British and Empire materials, by British workmen. The window fastenings .and door hinges arn hand wrought. Even the bricks are- hand made. The stone from which the building is mainly constructed comes from Portland, and granite from Ireland. The teak for the floors is from Burma, the carpets from the West of England. The silk repp with which the interior walls are to be panelled is from the Midlands. The Queen planned most of the interior decoration for the new luncheon room and the retiring rooms. ihe whole note is one of chaste simplicity. The predominating colour is green. Jhe walls will be of jade, the carpets of a subtle shade of lily loaf. Modem lifts have been installed. Lven these have been richly carpeted and have hand-painted walls. The % m f UT f r alterations were planned by Professor 4. E Richardson, the architect who designed the recently rebuilt King's stand aiT Neinnarket.