CORONATION CROWDS.
ORDERLINESS SHOWN. : (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 3. There was an echo in the House of Commons to-day of the Coronation Day crowds or unprecedented dimensions which thronged London streets tilt late that night, and on the following nights on which the West End was given over to jubilation and millions tilled the vehicle-empty streets to see the illuminations and decorations. Sir Samuel Hoare (Secretary for Home Affairs) told the House that the number of persons charged with drunkenness of ail kinds in the whole of the metropolitan district during Coronation week was 4t)2.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 158, 5 June 1937, Page 9
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96CORONATION CROWDS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 158, 5 June 1937, Page 9
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