MANY BIRTHDAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 146, 22 June 1937, Page 8

MANY BIRTHDAYS.

" POOR KING GEORGE."

AUSTRALIAN REJOICING

.Latest mails bring the advice that King George VI. will probably celebrate his birthday on the actual date of that event, December 14. This is likelv to be an isolated event, as the Royal liatal celebrations appear to be scattered all over the calendar. Like New Zealand, the Australian j Commonwealth fired off its guns on June [ 9, but that did not stop the Australian States having parties on their own account. Here is how Australians celebrated the King's birthdav: — New South Wales.—June 0 was "observed," but Slay 12 was taken as the public holiday. South Australia.—Ditto. Victoria. Observance and holiday on June 14. Tasmania.—Observance and holiday on June 7. Queensland.—Holiday probablv on January 3. . Jfew Zealand, to be quite sure of bein~ right, has already celebrated two birth" days of a monarch who had ruled less ♦w /i! X " I " nths - It """as no wonder that the Federal Attornev-General Mr R. G. Menzies, remarked 'in Parliament at Canberra:— "P° J or Kin S Oeorjre! With so many birthdays a year be must be a~ein« rapidly." ° ° j