CORONATION CELEBRATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 22627, 20 April 1937, Page 11

CORONATION CELEBRATIONS

OBSERVANCE BY SCHOOL CHILDREN GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS APPROVED The Education Department advised the meeting of the Otago Education Board that the Government had approved of the Coronation being celebrated by the schools in the following manner:— That pupils of each school should assemble therein at 9 a.m_. on Coronation Day, and after some suitable ceremony to disperse for the day. That on the day before the Coronation all schools be requested to recognise and explain to scholars, as part of the school curriculum, the significance of the Coronation. . . That in cases where local authorities desire the children to take part in some combined local effort, the question of allowing the children so to take part be left to the discretion of the local Education Board and secondary school authorities, it being clearly.'Understood that no Government financial assistance will be given. ' . Schools to be urged to provide some suitable symbol of commemoration, for example, ■ the .planting of a tree in the school grounds. That each school be provided, free or cost, with a permanent souvenir of the Coronation. (Later information indicates that this will take the form of a framed photograph of their Majesties. This in no way interferes with any committee providing the children with individual souvenirs.)