LOYALTY TO THRONE

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 February 1937, Page 14

LOYALTY TO THRONE

DOMINION GIRL GUIDES. A unique message of loyalty is to be sent as a Coronation gesture to Their Majesties the King and Quleen by the girl guides of New Zealand. Probably in the form of a. scroll inscribed with a fitting address it will i.ist be circulated throughout the Dominion by guides on foot, in motor cars, on horseback, and even by aeroplane. The message is expected to leave Government House, Wellington, about the beginning of March and to arrive in Auckland early in April. Arrangements are being made for its trans 1 - port to all parts of the Dominion—it is hoped, in fact, that by the time it is sent to England it -will have been handled by almost every guide in the country. It is planned to have the message carried personally wherever possible, without the use of the mail. In remote areas it will bo carried by guides on horseback; it will be passed on through the suburbs of Auckland and other cities by guides on foot-; and elsewhere it will travel on service cars, private cars and sometimes by bicycle. It is expected that ‘an aeroplane will carry it across Cook Strait. The Mayors of towns and cities will fix their official seals to the message. 1 Finally, accompanied by a map of New Zealand, showing the routes by which it travelled; it will be sent abroad to reach Their Majesties in time for the Coronation. It. is . recalled that a similar plan was carried out in England at. the time of the Roval Jubilee celebrations.