The back yard of the Invercargill police station recently established a link with AVestminster Abbey. Coronation robes and regalia, worn by Their Majesties the King and Queen and. Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose for the historic ceremony in the Abbey, lay all night in lorries in the police station yard because no suitable hall was available for them. Through unforeseen circumstances the exhibit arrived in Invercargill two days early and arrangements could not be made on the sin • of the moment for the housing of such valuables. The lorries, specially constructed for the carriage of their precious freight, were carefully watched by members of the police force; it is seldom that articles to the value of £50,000 lie in a police station yard.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 242, 9 July 1938, Page 15
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