LONDON PREPARES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 124, 24 April 1935, Page 7

LONDON PREPARES

FOR SILVER JUBILEE. GALAXY OF COLOUR. GREAT DECORATIVE WORK. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received April 24, 11.12 a.m. RUGBY, April 23. More than two thousand local authorities in Britain are completing their preparations for next month’s Silver Jubilee celebrations. In most cases the local counties have voted funds for decorations and illuminations. Bonfires, processions, and treats for young and old, in addition to the thanksgiving services, are to be features common to most of the local colebrationjt. , It is, however, certain that the major spectacles, including the Royal procession and the processional drives, will bring numbers of sightseefs to London, and the most elaborate arrangements have been made for the orderly handling of the crowds. All along the routes of the main procession platforms have been erected, and on every available site are pylons draped in blue and gold, and surmounted by the Royal emblems. Elsewhere, schemes for the decoration of streets and buildings are being rapidly advanced. Among the distinguished visitors to London for the occasion, the Dominion Prime Ministers will take a prominent place. Some of the many Indian rulers who will take part in London have already arrived and others are on the way to England. A record response has been received to the Prince of Wales’s recent broadcast appeal on behalf of the Jubilee Trust, which is to be administered in the interests of tho youth of Britain. The appeal was addressed to all classes of the community, and small subscribers were invited to send donations in unstamped envelopes. Over £32.000 has already been received in such a way and a further 10,000 letters have yet to be opened. More are arriving by every j>ost.