QUEEN'S TRIUMPH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 9

QUEEN'S TRIUMPH.

SPEECH IN PUBLIC.

Faces Huge Crowd And Battery

Of Microphones.

SPEAKS FRENCH AND ENGLISH

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OTTAWA, May 21

The Queen spoke in public tor the second time in her reign yesterday, when she laid tlie foundation-stone <>£ the new .Supreme Court of Canadu, a task which, she said, was "not inappropriate i'or a woman, for "Oman's position in civilised society lias depended upon the growth of the law.''

The first occasion on which Her Maje-ty was heard in public wa.a at the launching of the liner Queen Elizabeth, when she spoke only a few words. Yesterday, perfectly poised, she faced a huge crowd and a battery of microphones, which carried her voice to all parts of the Kmpire, as well as throughout the I'nitcd States, and delivered the first real speech of her reign in a clear, firm voice.

It was (he only occasion on which she will speak in Canada, and, as a compliment to French-Canadians, she made the latter half of her address in French, a language which she commenced studying at the age of four, and speaks fluently. The KiiiM was an interested onlooker.

The Queen's blue eyes shone with pleasure at the warmth of the crowd's reception, and during pauses in her speech she broke into the brilliant and completely happy smile that has charmed all Canadians.

Symbol of Free Democracy. In the English passages of her speech, the Queen declared herself happy to lay the foundation-stone of a "building devoted to the administration of justice, with its addition to the group of build ings on the heights above Ottawa—

"surely one of the noblest situations in tho world"—housing Parliament and tho executive branch of the Government.

There, said Her Majesty, would stand "h group of buildings unsurpassed as a symbol of the free and democratic institutions which are our greatest heritage."

Continuing in French, Her Majesty said: "In Canada, as in Great Britain, justice is administered according to two great, but dissimilar, legislations. In my native Scotland wc have law founded on the Roman law: it springs from the same fountainhcad as your civil law in the old province of Quebec. In England, as in Canada's other provinces, common law prevails. At Ottawa, its in Westminster, both are administered by the Supreme Court of Justice,

"To me this is a very happy augury. To see your two {Treat races, with their different legislations, beliefs and traditions, uniting more and more closely, after the manner of England and Scotland, liy the ties of affection, respect and a common ideal, is my fondest wish."

Karlirr, Her Majesty had sat at a window of the Governor-General's offices in Parliament Buildings and watched the Brigade of Canadian Guards trooping their Colours before the King.

OFFICIALS BLUNDER.

CROWD WAITING FOUR HOURS

OTTAWA, May 21

A blunder on the part of a Government official last night caused the first unfortunate incident of the Royal tour. Because the King had not been informed that it had been announced that he and the Queen would make a brief appearance on the balcony of the Chateau Laurier before the State banquet, a crowd of 90,000 people, who jammed Connaught Square, waited fruitlessly for four hours.

Finally word reached the King that the crowd had been gathered at the front entrance of the hotel since early in the afternoon. His Majesty immediately asked to be excused from the banquet and, with the Queen, went to the balconv.

Rain was falling, but, in spite of cautions by the equerries. Their Majesties stood on the balcony for five minutes acknowledging the plaudits of the crowd. They did not return to the banqueting chamber, taking their coffee instead in a private room.

AS KING PASSED BY.

CANADIAN BABY BORN

OTTAWA, May 21

Margaret Rose Paquette, weighing "lb, is probably the youngest person in history to attend a Royal procession, because her mother insisted on going to see the King and Queen, and the baby was born in a boathouse just as the State carriage appeared along the route skirting Dow's Lake.

A doctor was hastily called from a first-aid post, and rushed the mother and child to hospital when the procession had passed. Margaret's name presented no difficulties, as she has an elder sister named Elizabeth.