KING’S CORONATION

Evening Star, Issue 22630, 23 April 1937, Page 9

KING’S CORONATION

EXPENDITURE FROM PUBLIC FUNDS ESTIMATED AT £689.400 (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Te!egx-aph—Copyright RUGBY, April 21. It is estimated that the expenditure from public funds in connection with the Coronation will he £689,400. VIENNESE VISITOR ROLLER SKATING TO LONDON. VIENNA, April 22. (Received April 23, at 1.30 p.m.) Karl Riemer, aged 52, an unemployed Viennese, is setting out for London on roller skates on April 25 to see the Coronation. From Calais to Dover is the only stage on which another form of transport will be used. REHEARSALS AT ABBEY ROYAL DUKES IN ATTENDANCE. LONDON, April 22. (Received April 23, at 1.45 p.m.) The Duke of Norfolk used a stopwatch to time the Coronation rehearsals at Westminster Abbey, the second of which Was attended by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke and Duchess of Kent. The Duke of Gloucester, who, as senior Duke in the Royal Family, will kneel before the King, knelt before the place the King will occupy. The Duke of Kent knelt nearby in a section reserved for the peers. Both repeated the words of the oath of homage. THE KING'S SYMPATHY MESSAGE TO EX-SERVICEMEN. LONDON, April 22. (Received April 23, at 1.30 p.m.) The King directed that a personal message of sympathy and goodwill be sent to ex-servicemen in hospitals throughout the Empire on the occasion of the Coronation.