SLOW PROGRESS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 21, 22 December 1928, Page 9

SLOW PROGRESS

HIS MAJESTY’S ILLNESS

NO APPRECIABLE CHANGE NOTED

PRINCE GEORGE ARRIVES IN - ENGLAND.

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (British Official Wireless). Received December 22, 10.20 a.m. RUGBY, Dec. 21. A bulletin issued from Buckingham Palace at 8.15 o’clock this evening states: — “The King has had a quiet day. The local and general conditions show a very slow, though favourable course.” A bulletin was issued at 11.30 o’clock this morning stating that the King had a restful night. There was no appreciable change' to be noted. From the morning bulletin it may be interpreted that the King continues to make good, but slow, progress. Lord Dawson of Penn stayed only a few minutes at the Palace this afternoon. There w-as no statement issued. Prince George arrived at Southampton to-day and was welcomed by the Mayor. . The King has permitted private circulation of a gramophone record of his last utterance before his illness, which was at the opening of the Tyne bridge. The record is to bo preserved in the British Museum. COUNSELLORS OF STATE. The Counsellors of State appointed by the King during his illness held a Privy Council at Buckingham Palace to-day, the Queen presiding. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chancellor were the other counsellors present, together with the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks. A number of matters arising out of the adjournment of Parliament were settled, apart from routine business.