KING'S MESSAGE
EX-SOLDIERS IN HOSPITAL
DISTRIBUTION DIFFICULTY OVERCOME
; (Received May 3, 11.50 a.m;V : LONDON, May .2. The King's personal -\ message of sympathy and good will to ex-service-men in the hospitals throughout ..the Empire on the occasion of the.: Coro-. nation will be distributed throughout the world on the morning of Coronation day, accompanied by., an, official ■ souvenir Coronation programme. ■ ; Mr. ,H. Ramsbotham,. Minister-of Pensions,^referring to: the. difficulty of speedily: distributing . the- programme," which has only just been printed, says it is essential to send 1600 copies, weighing four hundredweight, to Australia. and New Zealand, to which there is no parcels air mail; Imperial Airways overcame the difficulty by' generously agreeing■ to send the copies by the regular air service.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1937, Page 9
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119KING'S MESSAGE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1937, Page 9
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