CORONATION FESTIVITIES
BROADCASTING FACILITIES
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(Recd. April 17. 11 a.m.) • LONDON. April 16
Fifty-eight microphones, Iwo control rooms, three subsidiary controls, one of which will be at Buckingham Palace. 172 miles of wire, seven observers, describing the scenes along the route and at the Abbey, to Britain and the Empire, and ten commentaries to foreign countries in their own languages, will be factors in the historic broadcast of the Coronation ceremonev.
SOUTH AFRICA’S FREEDOM
CAPE TOWN, April 1G
Before sailing for the Coronation. General Hertzog issued a statement that. South Africa will participate in •the Coronation as equal with other Independent States of tin* Commonwealth. It will be a. proud day when in the presence of the world, South Africa’s freedom is thus crowned and acclaimed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1937, Page 7
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