LIKE FATHER'S.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 297, 15 December 1936, Page 7

LIKE FATHER'S.

KING'S CHARACTER.

Tributes in House of Commons

To New MonarchSAME DEVOTION TO DUTY. British Official Wireless. (Received 2 p.m.) RUGBY, December 14. The Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, moving in the House of Commons Address-in-Reply to the King's message, spoke of His Majesty's strong resemblance in character and disposition of mind to his father.

He said lie would bring to his great task the same devotion to duty.

Mr. Baldwin said: "His Majesty, in his message, speaks of his great personal distress, and I can assure the House that this is no exaggeration."

The Leader of the Opposition, Major Attlee, referred tb His Majesty's wide acquaintance with the Dominions and other parts of the Empire and his close knowledge of social questions.

Major Attlee. added that the circumstances under which the King succeeded, though they necessarily made his position more difficult, were but transitory.

LEGAL PUZZLE.

Complexities of Irish Free

State Constitution

THE KING'S POSITION.

LONDON, December 14.

The "Daily Telegraph" Dublin correspondent says constitutional lawyers are unable to unravel the complexities of the situation due to the passing of the constitutional measures on Friday and Saturday, providing for the abolition of the post of Governor-General in the Irish Free State and the deletion of the King's name from all internal activities.

Mr. John Costello, who when he was Free State Attorney-General assisted in drafting the Statute of Westminster, objected during the debate to the phrase "symbol of co-operation" as defining the King's position in the Commonwealth. He insisted that the words accepted by the Commonwealth Governments were "symbol of free association/' and contended that any other definition was "impudent interference with other Commonwealth Governments."

Other authorities point out that while the King is deprived of internal, functions he still remains, under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, part of the Free State Parliament.

The bills are likely t© be tested in the Dublin Supreme Court.

RENEWED LOYALTY

RAROTONGA AND COOK GROUP

(Received 1.30 p.m.)

RAROTONGA, December 14.

To-day the Proclamation of Accession was read at Rarotonga and the islands of the Cook Group when the people expressed their allegiance to the new Sovereign and renewed loyalty to the Throne and Empire.