GOING TO SEE KING EDWARD CROWNED

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 256, 25 July 1936, Page 8

GOING TO SEE KING EDWARD CROWNED

Welsh Delegation WHEN LONDON WILL BE OVERCROWDED Big crowds of New Zealanders and Australians intend visiting London next year for the King’s Coronation. Already liner and hotel bookings are heavy, and there is no doubt that even the extensive accommodation of the world’s greatest metropolis will be taxed to its utmost.

Delegations from many public bodies and social organisations are to attend the ceremonies. Not least interesting of these will be the party of Australian and New Zealand Welshmen, who, besides seeing the London festivities, will attend the Welsh Royal National Eisteddfod at Machynlleth. The delegation is being organised by Mr. E. A. Rawson, president of the Association of Welsh Societies of Australia, but the tour will be open to all of Welsh extraction or sympathy in either the Commonwealth or the Dominion. In addition to visiting the Coronation and the eisteddfod the party will travel extensively through Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Belgium. The Royal National Eisteddfod is one of the most important events in tire Welsh social and cultural year. On this particular occasion it will have a special appeal to colonials, as the Bardic Chair is to be presented by the Queensland Welsh Society. Other parties Homeward-bound for the Coronation include a body of farmers, who are to go over under the auspices of the Jersey Breeders’ Association, and will have the opportunity of visiting that particular one of the Channel Islands and seeing Jersey cattle being raised in their own native pastures. They will also visit ranches in Canada and America. Both this and the Welsh tour are being arranged by Cook’s Travel Bureau. A great deal of interest is being taken in the route to be taken by the Royal procession through the London streets, when the King drives in state to be crowned. If the old short route used on former occasions is chosen, seats will be more difficult to obtain, and will cost about £5/5/-, whereas if, as the King wishes, a longer route 1? followed, the price' of seats may fall as low as £2/2/-. Of course members of organised parties will have their seats reserved in advance.