THE KING’S JUBILEE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 March 1935, Page 7

THE KING’S JUBILEE

PLANS FOR CELEBRATION ELABORATE DECORATIONS “BACK TO MERRIEi ENGLAND.” From Our Own Correspondent. (By Air Mail). LONDON, Feb. 0. The “Memo England” of romantic tradition will be recalled throughout the length gnd breadth of the country this summer. The celebration of the Royal Jubilee will restore the colour and gaiety of bygone days. Every city, town and village will be emblazoned with flowers, flags and bunting. •Buildings will be floodlit. There will be parades and 1 pageants innumerable. Women’s fashions will recall the. famous beauties of past days.

The celebrations will centre around May 6, which is to be a public holiday. Already many local councils have drawn up elaborate plans for the decorations which are to transform drab streets into bowers of flags and flowers. Schemes already approved in London, for example, include:

Marylebone.—£lo,ooo is to be spent on a scheme, the centrepiece of which is to be an Empire street, beflagged with the colours and emblems of all the Dominions and colonies. Westminster. —Whitehall, the Embankment, and other main thoroughfares are to be made gay with bunting at a cost of between £B,OOO and £IO,OOO. • .. . Bond Street.—The imposing display for the Royal Wedding is to be repeated on a bigger scale, at a cost of about £2,000. Many individual fii’ins are making their own plans. For example, nearly MOOO is to be spent on the embellishment of one'block of buildings in Regent- Street, It -will be the same in the provinces. Brighton lias already voted £6OOO and Bognor £3OOO for decorations and illuminations. Oxford. City Council voted £ISOO for illuminations and fireworks and a treat for children. Biinv ingham is to have a great parade oi troops and aeroplanes. • The official period for the celebrations is a fortnight, but it is understood that most of the street decorations —which are to be made waterproof—will remain for a week longer. Already manufacturers of flags and bunting are working overtime. The flood of home orders will not. reach i+3 peak for some weeks yet, and 1 at present manufacturers are concentrating on meeting the demands of the Dominions and . colonies. Thousands upon thousands of Britishmade flags are being shipped abroad. The dressmakers’ contribution to the jubilee vear pageantry was revealed this week at the first important West End parade of 1935 fashions. They, are (going to ideajlise typical English beauties of the past the camellia-like types of early Victorian da vs. Lily Langtry—“the Jersey Lily and the glamorous ladies of the time of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Lily Langtry will inspire modes for tlie most memorable Ascot for years. Women will appear with curls bunched on the forehead and at the nape of the neon, and revealed by bonnet-sliaped hats.

Prince of Wales Reveals Plans to Aid Youth Movements

THANKS OFFERING SCHEME (UniteU rress Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright). LONDON, March 1. Such a large gathering, including religiuos leaders, responded to the Prince of Wales’ invitation to a meeting to discuss the establishment of a national thanks offering fund for the King’s jubilee, that it filled two great rooms at St. James’ Palace. The Prince, standing in a doorway addressing both rooms simultaneously, revealed his plan to form a King George’s jubilee trust to assist the local extension of existing voluntary youth movements.

He emphasised that millions of British people wished to express to the King their deep thankfulness for his reign. While people were celebrating the jubilee with a. diversify of local activities and ceremonies, they also felt the year should not be allowed to pass without a permanent thanks offering, in which to pour out their gratitude and loyal affection.

“I can think of no call making so universal nil appeal as the c-all of youth,” said the prince. “I have ascertained that nothing would give Their Majesties greater pleasure than a thanks offering devoted to the younger generation. I in common with you, am concerned with boys and girls after leaving school until the age of 18 when they enter an unfamiliar world at the most critical moment in their physical, moral and mental development, needing discipline, friends and opportunity which we can, give.

Over 500,000 boys between 1-4 and 18 are drifting into mjanhood, lacking guidance and the opening for their natural high spirits and ambitions. There is no sadder sight in the world than aimless and dispirited youth and nothing more heartening than boys and girls in organisations ensuring amusement, physical, mental and spiritual fitness and mutual service that makes people grete.

“It is proposed later to form a committee to assist in framing proposals for submission to the King. Meanwhile we need not await finance but can recruit helpers for the undertaking.” The Lord IvlayAr, Sir Stephen- Killick, vbiced the meeting’s acceptance of the proposals,