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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)

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All editions of "Whitaker" for tlie Coronation Year contain a large type index of 243 columns (81 pages), and reference to the contents can be made with a minimum of delay. The Coronation ceremony, as last observed, is given in detail, and a conspectus of the Royal Family, from the time of King George 111., shows the relationships between the House of Windsor and the other reigning or Royal Houses. Various additions have been made to the official sections, including the staff of the Departments for Co-ordination of Defence, Munitions Production, Air Raids Precautions, and of the Unemployment Assistance Board; a list of the Secretaries of State for Scotland, and a table of precedency for the Northern Kingdom; members of the Privy Council, Senate and House of Commons of Northern Ireland; and the results of the 1936 census of the Irish Free State and of many of the Dominions. The new edition also contains historical and statistical articles dealing with India, the Dominions and Colonies, together with special articles on matters of current interest, among them being overcrowding in England and Wales, fixed and flexible trusts. exchange equalisation funds, and sterling in relation to gold. while annual summaries deal with weather, sciences and invention. art, literature, rlratna. films, broadcasting. television, gliding. and stratosphere flights, A supplement concerning the abdication of King Edward VJII.. and the accession of King George VI., will be made available through booksellers free of charge for insertion in copies of the new edition, which had been published" and distributed before the abdication.