THE CORONATION
SOUTH AFRICAN REPRESEN-. TATIVE. [PRESS ASSOCIATION. -COPYRIGHT, i Capetown, Jan. 20. The South African Union will send to the Coronation 200 volunteers and police, and Rhodesia will send 50. NEW ZEALAND SENDS CONTINGENT. PRIME MINISTER INTERVIEWED. Wellington, Jan. 20. Interviewed by a “New Zealand Times” reporter Sir Joseph Ward said it was absurd for anyone to suggest that the Government was keeping anything back concerning the invitations to the Coronation. i No invitation of any kind had been t received by the Government for members of the Legislature to attend the ceremony. If it had been, members of Parliament would have been communicated with at once. Sir Joseph Ward said it was' in tended to send a contingent of troops from New Zealand, but he had strongly urged that in view of the fact that coronation celebrations of a suitable character would be carried out in this Dominion a body of Imperial troops might be sent here.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 33, 21 January 1911, Page 1
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