THE CORONATION

Grey River Argus, 3 May 1937, Page 5

THE CORONATION

RADIO DETAILS

Jackaroo and Maori Speakers

(Ans. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received May 2, 7.30 p-m-) LONDON, May 1-

The British Broadcasting Corporation has 'issued the final details of the Empire’s homage broadcast. It will open with, a rlecorded extract of the Coronation service, followed by a recorded "flash” of the Royal procession, after which’ a septuagenarian Londoner, who remembers King George the Fifth’s and King Edward thc Seventh’s Coronations and Queen Vctoria’s golden and diamond jubilees, will be the first representative citizen offering homage- Other Britons will include an Aberdeen woman, who will greet Queen" ’Elizabeth from her native Scotland. The Prem’ers’ homage is t° be interspersed with that representatives of thciit Dominions, including a "jackaroo” speaking from Sydney, and a New Zealand sailoi and! a Maori spokesman using his native tongue from Wellington. As London calls' up each Dominion, special'yeomposed trumpet fanfares will be nlayed- Rehearsals are to begin on May 3A certain Birmingham employer, according to Councillor! G- M- Lhompson of the Education Committee, is using the Coronation festivities as. a smoke screen for sweating child labour in order to increase his profits Councillor Thompson adds: "The children work ten hours daily making rosettes, paper hats and streamers in factories and in their homes, toiling into thc gaslit hours.” Councillor Wiggins, chairman of thc Juvenile Committee, has promised an inquiry into the allegations.