KING’S JUBILEE

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1935, Page 7

KING’S JUBILEE

ALBERT HALL MEETING. [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIOHT.] (Recd. April 27, Noon.) LONDON, April 27. Mr Hales, M.P., suggests a.mass meeting at Albert Hall to give a rousing Welcome to many thousands of Australians and New Zealanders attending the Jubilee. He says it will be a unique opportunity, permitting Australian and New Zealand Premiers and British Ministers to meet on the platform, proving the Empire was not an abstract term, but a genuine bond of brotherhood. NEW ZEALAND’S GIFT. As the first contribution to a gift from the Government and people of New Zealand to His Majesty the King in commemoration of the Silver Jubilee of his accession to the Throne, the Government has appropriated the sum of £5OO, which will be used, according to the King’s wish, with all other subscriptions to the gift, for the advancement of cancer research in the Dominion. The Government’s action is officially, announced to-day in the following statement by the Acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. E. A. Ransom: —

“In commemoration of the Silver Jubilee of His Majesty’s accession to the Throne, the New Zealand Government have proposed that a Jubilee gift should be presented to His Majesty by the Government and people of New Zealand. The King has been graciously pleased to approve this proposal. and has signified his pleasure that all moneys collected for this gift should be devoted to the object of cancer research in New Zealand. The Government have appropriated the sum of £5OO as their contribution and. with His Majesty’s approval, I now invite public subscriptions for this purpose. The Government trust that the people of New Zealand will contribute, according to their means, to this worthy object—no sum will be too small. Every subscriber will understand that he is not only contributing towards a gift in honour of His Majesty’s Silver Jubilee, but will at the same time be assisting, in accord with His Majesty’s wish, a most deserving object. The total moneys collected will be administered by the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Socety, Inc. Contributions will be received until May 31 next, and may be paid into any money-order office or forwarded direct to the Treasurer of the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society, Inc., 212 Lambton Quay, Wellington.”