ARRANGEMENTS FOR TODAY

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 127, 22 February 1941, Page 12

ARRANGEMENTS FOR TODAY

Swearing-In Ceremony The Governor-General designate and Lady Newall and party will arrive at Wellington shortly before 9 o'clock this morning by train from Auckland. The swearing-in ceremony will take place lit Parliament Buildings at .1.1 a.m. Following are the arrangements for the morning’s events. 'rhe Administrator, Sir Michael Myers, attended by the Clerk of the Executive Council, will board the train on arrival to welcome Sir Cyril and Lady Newall, and will be followed at 9 o'clock by the Prime Minister. Mr. Fraser. When Sir Cyril and Lady Newall leave the train, they will be greeted with the Royal Salute by' a guard of honour from the Army School and the Uoyal New Zealand Air Force, accompanied by the Royal New Zealand Air Force Band. Sir Cyril and Sir Michael Myers will inspect the guard.

Afterward those at the station, including Lady .Myers, Mrs. Fraser, Ministers of the Crown, the High Commissioners for the United Kingdom and Canada, members of the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives, and Chiefs of Staffs of the armed services, and their wives, will bo presented.

From the-station the official party will go to the Town Hall, via the War Memorial. Bowen Street. Sir Cyril will lay a wreath at the memorial and will be met there by representatives of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association. At the Town Hall, which will be approached by way of Lambton Quay, Willis and Mercer Streets, the Prime Minister will introduce the mayor and mayoress, Mr. and Mrs. Hislop, and the mayor will present city councillors, their wives, and council officers, at an informal ceremony. Afterward Sir Cyril and Lady Newall will drive by Manners Street, Courtenay Place and Kent Terrace to Government House.

Preceded by a police escort and with an air escort overhead, they will leave again at 10.50 for Parliament House, driving along Cambridge Terrace, Courtenay Place, Manners Street, Willis Street and Lambton Quay. In Parliament grounds they will be received byguard of honour commanded by Captain G. F. MacCullocb, comprising 50 men from the Army School and 50 of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. The band will again be that of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. After the Royal Salute and inspection of the guard, the swearing-in will take place. The commission of appointment will be read by the Clerk of the Executive Council, and Sir Cyril will take the Oath of Allegiance and the Oath of Office, administered by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers. The Royal Salute will then be repeated and the vice-regal flag broken out. The Prime Minister will then deliver a speech of welcome, to which his Excellency will reply. He will inspect a body of returned soldiers immediately after the ceremony, before returning to Government House.

The ceremony will be relayed by loudspeakers and will be broadcast by the national radio stations.