ROYAL JUBILEE

Evening Star, Issue 22004, 13 April 1935, Page 15

ROYAL JUBILEE

SPECIAL THANKSGIVING HYMN Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, April 11. The Poet Laureate, Mr John Masefield, has written, and Sir Walford Davies, Master of Music to the King, has composed, an 18-line jubilee thanksgiving hymn in the form of a prayer for the King and country. It will bo broadcast on May 6. THE NAVAL REVIEW (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 12. (Received April 13, at noon). In addition to battle cruisers, destroyers, submarines, aircraft carriers and other types of vessels iu the Royal Navy, ten battleships will take part in the naval review to be held at Spithead on July 16, in honour of the King’s Silver Jubilee. They are Nelson, Rodney, Barnbam, and Valiant of the Home Fleet, Queen Elizabeth, Royal Sovereign, Resolution, Revenge, and Ramillies of the Mediterranean Fleet, and Iron Duke, Hood, and llenoun will also take part, as will the aircraft carriers Courageous and Furious, all of the Homo Fleet. MINERS' PENSION FUND (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April, 12. (Received April 13, at noon). The South Wales coal owners intention to mark the King’s Jubilee by inaugurating with a gift of at least £50,000 a pension fund for miners has been received with gratifying surprise, aud was the subject of much favourable comment when it was announced in response to a question in the House of Commons. The promised gift is all the more notable since the South Wales coal owners have been less prosperous in recent years that those of other districts' A labour member, Mr George Hall, in referring ta the gratification among miners, said, “I really believe that South Wales owners have laid the foundation of a scheme which is the miners’ dream.” ‘The Times' says their proposal is a token of goodwill which will help to bring employers and workmen together in a hew and voluntary enterprise of welfare.