ROYAL FAMILY

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1937, Page 5

ROYAL FAMILY

THE PROGRAMME Visits TO SCOTLAND & WALES. (Pet British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 16. The official Coronation programme included a visit by the King and Queen to Scotland from July 5 !to 12, and to Wales on July 14 and 15. Plans for the decoration of the streets for the Coronation and for stands and reserved accommodation are now complete. Seats and standing room will be allotted to repreiseiitatives of as many facets of national life as possible after provision has been made for visitors from the Dominions, India and the colonies. The decorations will remain in place for a fortnight after the Coronation and for a week after there will be extensive floodlighting of public buildings. The interior of ri est mi lister Abbey itself will be artificially illuminated with “daylight” for the Coronation service. Electric cun ent with 200,000 candlepower capacity is being made specially available.

j QUEENS GO SHOPPING RUGBY, January 16. | The Queen and Queen Alary, who ■ had'' planned to visit Cambridge yes- ; teiib'y for (lie purpose of inspecting ' antiques at a shop which Queen j Mary frequently patronises, and I who were prevented: by fog which was widespread and caused severe traffic dislocation in many parts of the -country, carried out their contemplated visit to-day, and were v arm! y received by a large number of spoci a tots. PRINCESS ELIZABETH LONDON, January 18. The “Daily Telegraph,” saying (hat never before have the Queen Mother and Hair Presumptive to ihe Throne attended a Coronation. says it is proposed that Princess Elizabeth shall have a chair beside Queen Alary’s on the sanctuary in front of the special box in which Queen Mary’s friends will bo seated. Other boxes will contain the King’s and Queen’s friends. PRESS PERSECUTION AIR ALLEN’S COMPLAINT' LONDON. January IS. Mr AY. E. I). Allen, in a letter to “The Times,” “in connection with the press persecution initiated as a result of the casual and utterly harmless visit, of my wife to a phrenologist in company with a member of the Royal Family,” says:

“My mother-in-law, an elderly l-uly in weak health, living alone, lias been reduced to a state of nervous exhaustion by the relentless attentions of reporters. If the liberty of the press is to bo expressed as the persecution of individuals of all classes, it is high time Parliament restrained a license that is amounting to an intolerable and ever-grow-ing scandal. Otherwise certain individuals who have grown rich upon the ruthless exploitation of other people’s private lives will find themselves in conflict with men not in such a helpless position as she who has recently been tortured on the wheel of the yellow press.”

NEW CIVIL LIST. PROVISION FOR DUKE OF WINDSOR. (Received this day at 10.45 a.lti.) LONDON, January IS. Commenting on the necessity for a new Civil List including provision for the Duke of Windsor, the “Guardian” expresses the opinion that it would be silly to pretend that it will not be disputed. that the country is undoubtedly prepared to give a just pension to the Duke of Windsor, but there is clearly room for disagreement about what is just in the circumstances. The Civil list Dill may even prove politically, an award for the Government..., The** “Guardian’s” comment follows the ' 'impression that Edward while Prince of Wales husbanded his resources and amassed a considerable fortune. VISIT TO RACES. (Received this day at 30-/5 a.in.) LONDON, January IS TE ir Majesties, Queen Mary, and Car! Harowood visited the Hoval racing ;ifiles at Newmarket. TlnJir Majesties v. ill a timid the Grand National on March 13.