SOME CONCERN ABOUT THE KING'S HEALTH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 35, 11 February 1937, Page 8

SOME CONCERN ABOUT THE KING'S HEALTH.

SEVERE STRAIX

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Home Press.

COMPLETE REST ORDERED. Vui.'.'-.i Pre« A<«..<•: tci-ii. •-(*..:% r.jjlic. n.-.-.:.1 'j w j. r:i ) I.i iV i ,'i i\, Feiiruarv In. The {Mist j»• i;• 111« !i- i■ i th« I >!trli.-ir J..i- t >:■ >1! 11• i I-1 r - t?i; 11 tin t-.-trr-_r _-;a\e <-• •!n-.■ rn. b'U r.ies.- iri* .*«ir;i{!••.-- -!;itcs tin- "NVws t"'lrur !••!«w! :<■!. 1.i•:: "The King j)rt.-i'!it i- ::i • xrr llciit health and -p:r • t and i.- taking tin- -train of his :! '\v re=-poii-ibil:tio.» calmly. "Xev ertiiele-s. t!i§■ i"t• m: _ - l»' -ome lucrn in the future in \ie\v uf the in'Hvv ( ni.inati.in programme. The Kinir :■vjmtodly has not -<> resit a caj.aeity 1..r endurance as the Duke of Wiuil-...-. and it is felt that undue -train mijrht h-si \ e unfortunate consequence-. Medical advi-ers liave recommended a complete re-t before and after the Coronation. ""Queen Klizaheth. win. ha- Mitfered no -eriou- illness since chilJitood. is prepaririir for the I oronatio-i by taking the maximum jxissihle rest daily." CORONATION SEATS. Offers to £50 for Position to See Ceremonies. ALL RECORDS BROKEN. (Received 2.30 pjn.) LONDON. February 10. The demand for Coronation seats ;s growing daily. All records have been broken. Requests for seats are coming in from all parts of the world. Some Americans and people from the Dominions are paying £50 for a single seat. j Cabinet is considering a proposal to I create a central Coronation Information Bureau to assist overseas visitors. The offices of the various High Commissioners are daily inundated with thousands of inquiries from intending visitors. The High Commissioners have not yet been told their allotments of seats in the Government stands, hut it is expected they will receive a generous share at £2 or £3 a seat.

There will be broadcast descriptions from inside and outside the Abbey, as well as of ' the procession by a large number of British and foreign observers.

FLY FILMS TO U.S.A.? CORONATION ARRANGEMENTS. (Hecelved' 2.30 p.m.) - "■ LONDON, February 10. To enable their exhibition in New York the day after the ceremony, a British news reel concern is seeking to arrange for Colonel Lindbergh, Mrs. Amy Mollison or Mrs. Beryl Markham to • fly a Coronation "film across the Atlantic. Additional negatives will be sent to New York by the airship Htndeiiburg from Frankfurt on May 12. Mrs. Mollison and Mr?. Markham have already expressed readiness to undertake the flight. PICTURES AND OPERA. ROYAL PARTY IN AUSTRIA. (Received 2.30 jt.a.) VIENNA, February 10. The Duke of Windsor, the Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewood j>aid a second visit to the National Gallery. They were particularly interested in a number of pictures once owned by Charles I. of England and later transferred to Austrian Imperial possession. The party attended a performance of "Tristan and Isolde" in the Vienna Opera House the same evening. GRANT TO EX-KING. OPPOSITION FROM LABOUR. (Keeeived 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, February 10. The Parliamentary Labour partv decided to oppose a grant to the Duke of Windsor from the Civil List, also to press for nationalisation of revenues from the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster.