UNANSWERED HOPES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1936, Page 8

UNANSWERED HOPES

IN AMERICA AND CANADA. GREAT DEMONSTRATION OF AFFECTION. Received January 21, 1.20 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 20. Profoundly affected by King George’s illpess, the peoples of the continent, from Hudson Ray to Rio Grande, are giving evidence of the earnest hope for his recovery. Air Cordell Hull (Secretary of State) to-day instructed the Embassy in London to convey President Roosevelt’s earnest wishes for the Monarch’s return to well-being, while prayers are being said in churches and schools in Canada and the United States. Air W. L. Mackenzie King (Canadian Premier) said: “There is not a church nor a home in which the prayers of the people have not been ottered for the King, and in which the anxieties of the Queen and the. other lffembers of the Royal Family have not also been remembered.” One of the most striking evidences of American sympathy is contained in a resolution offered in the Virginia State Legislature by the Speaker, in which it is stated that the “daughter is not yet separated so far from her mother, as not to learn with the deepest concern and anxiety of the King's illness and to pray earnestly for the restoration of his health.

DOMINION’S GRIEF. NATION-WIDE OBSERVANCE. OFFICIAL PROCEDURE. (By Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 21. Immediately following the announcement by the Governor-General of the peaceful end of His Majesty, all Government offices throughout the Dominion were closed and through the medium of the postmasters His Excellency’s statement was made available to the public. Simultaneously through the length and breadth of New Zealand minute bells commenced their sad tolling, at first a series of 70 strokes at minute intervals- marking eacn year of His late Alajesty’s lire; then, following a three-minute interval, came a series of minute bells marking the years of his reign. Official flags at half-mast have flving above them a streamer pennant of crepe. What helped to dramatically visualise the deep public sense of mourning in AVellington was that on the first toll of the Post Office clock all blinds in the Government Offices throughout the city were quietly drawn down to remain thus until King George is laid to rest. mayor t s”regret. SOVEREIGN’S DEATH MOURNED. ANNOUNCING THE NEWS. Citizens of Palmerston North would

greatly mourn the passing of a monarch who was so sincere and faithful in discharging his duties as Head of the Constitution, stated the Alayor (Air A. E. Alansford), who added that His Majesty had held the lifelong affection of all the people. Instructions are awaited from the Department of Internal Affairs as to what forni civic mourning .will take. All Government offices were - directed to close from 1.30 p.m. to-day, and further orders were to be isued later. Following the custom in the case of the death of the Sovereign, a black pennant was flown above the half-mast Union Jack on the Post Office.

Within a very short time the news that Fling G eorge had passed a Way was known throughout the" city, a specially distributed announcement being made by the “Standard,” and business houses had flags Hying at half-mast.