CORONATION PLANS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 123, 26 April 1937, Page 7

CORONATION PLANS

THE SECOND REHEARSAL. LONDON STREETS CROWDED. SUNDAY MORNING SCENE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received April 20, 9.20 a.m. LONDON, April 25. liOndoners arc acquiring the habit of early Sunday rising. Thousands were up at dawn for the second Coronation procession rehearsal, which was more elaborate and more authentic than the first. People stood ten deep at 0.10 a.m. at Whitehall. Tho spectacle was worth the sacrifice of a few hours’ slet*p. Suburban people enjoyed occupying tho ton guinea seats on tho stands for nothing. Police in vans toured one section of the route, asking the crowd to cheer as on Coronation Day in order to accustom tho horses to tho noise. The crowd needed no prompting. Tho crowds were more dense than on the first occasion, owing to the increased transport facilities. NEWSR EEL EE AT UR E. Received April 26, 10.25 a.m. LONDON, April 25. A film of the King and Queen and the little Princesses in the grounds of their own home will he shown in newsreels hoginning on April 26. His Majesty suggested several shots and the others were spontaneous, such as the Princesses feeding birds on the lawn. THE KING’S BROADCAST. CORONATION DAY CLIMAX. LONDON, April 24. The King’s Coronation broadcast on May 12 will be at approximately 8 p.m., British standard time (7.30 a.m. in New Zealand on May 13). It will last 10 minutes, and form the climax to a programme of Empire homage. It will be preceded by speeches by five Dominion Prime Ministers and the Viceroy of India. ARRIVALS IN LONDON. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 23. Sir Archdale Parkhill, Australian Minister of Defence, arrived in London to-day. Another arrival for the Coronation was the Sultan of Lahej. RUMANIAN REPRESENTATIVE. Received April 26, 10.25 a.m. BUCHAREST, April 25. The fiftecn-year-oid Crown Prince Michael will represent King Carol at the Coronation. LINER’S RACE WITH TIME. BOMBAY, April 24. With the jagged tear in her bows concreted and covered with a new plate, the Strathmore left this afternoon with only a day in hand to reach London before the Coronation. It is confidently expected she will succeed. SADNESS FOR INDIAN. DEATH OF WIFE. Received April 26, 9.20 a.m. LONDON, April 25. Just before Sir P. Pattani, the politician and writer, left for the Coronation from India his vifo developed pneumonia, but persuaded her husband to go to London without her. He arrived in Bombay, but he had a premonition that he had seen her* for the last time, so he chartered an aeroplane and flew back. He intended to cancel his journey, but she told him that her greatest desire was that he fulfil his obligation to attend the Coronation. He agreed, but four days after his arrival in London received news of his wife’s death.