TE KUITI SCHOOL CARNIVAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XVII, Issue 1713, 17 August 1922, Page 5

TE KUITI SCHOOL CARNIVAL.

CORONATION CEREMONY. About sixty children will take partin the ceremony this evening, and in each case the costumes and dressing have been arranged with great thoroughness. While it is not possible to follow out in detail the ceremony usually adopted at the coronation of members of the British Royal House, the coronation will be carried out generally on similar lines. Before the actual ceremony commences, the performers will take part in a procession round the hall, so that the audience will have an opportunity of inspecting at close range. The procession will be headed by two trumpeters who. on their entrance, after a blast of trumpets will make a proclamation and the procession will then form itself into order and move down the ball. The trumpeters will be followed by the Queen’s Stadard-bear-ers. Peers carrying the Sword, Crown. Orb and Sceptre, the Archbishop who is to perform the ceremony, and the Queen preceded by flowergirls scattering llowers and surrounded by her attendants and supported by tour stalwart, “Beefeaters” in the historic costumes of the Yeoman of the GuardAfter these will follow the Lord High Chancellor, and Lord High Chamberlain. Then follow the groups of the various attendant Queens, each preceded by a Standard-bearer ami attended by her Tasdies-in-Waiting, while the Queen’s Champion, ever ready to defend the Queen’s honour, brings up the rear. After the procession reaches the stage the actual coronation ceremony will take place, and the children taking the leading parts have been very carefully rehearsed and show every indication of being proficient in their respective parts.

'Pile first' part of the programme will consist of a number of interesting items by the school children, and the actual coronation procession will commence at about a, quarter to nine. An attractive souvenir programme lias been published with a full description of the ceremony, an'd will be sold at 6d to defray expenses. At the time of going to press all the seats had been reserved.