KING’S BIRTHDAY

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1935, Page 7

KING’S BIRTHDAY

YOUTH WELFARE FUND EFFORT. CußiTisn official wireless.) RUGBY, May 30. The King will celebrate his seventieth birthday on Monday. He will attend, that morning, the picturesque and impressive ceremony of trooping the colours by the Guards’ Battalions, which every June 3 attract great crowds of spectators. This year, there will be an opportunity of purchasing birthday emblems, in aid of the King’s Silver Jubilee Trust. This fund is the personal gift of the nation to His Majesty, who decided that it should be devoted to the “welfare of rhe rising generation.’’ 3 ho fund will not start a new organisation, but will help existing ones, which are concerned with the youth movement of the nation in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Additional financial assistance will enable boys’ and girls’ clubs, and many organisations, to extend their activities. Playing fields, gymnasium equipment tor games, headquarters for vouth centres, campaign equipment. and many other things were needed.

Contributions to the fund continue to pour In to St. Janies s Palace, where every day, for weeks past, the Prince of Wales has spent much time in its organisation. The total has in-ereased'-to such an extent that there are hopes that, the fust million pounds will have been reached next week. Tlie sale of Monday’s birthday emblems, has been organised by. voluntary workers throughout the London area.- and one and a-lialf million of them have been specially made by the British Legion poppy factory.