SPEECH FROM THRONE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 144, 20 May 1939, Page 10

SPEECH FROM THRONE

THE KING’S THANKS. TIES OF EMPIRE. (United Press'Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copy right.) Received May 20, 12.45 p.m. OTTAWA, May 19. The address' given by the King, first in English and then in French, from tile Throne in the Senate of tue Canadian Parliament to-day was as follows : “I thank you sincerely for your addresses received on my arrival at Quebec. The Queen and I deeply appreciate your loyal affectionate messages. “I am very happy that my visit to Canada affords me the opportunity of meeting in Parliament assembled the members of both Houses. No ceremony could more completely symbolise the free and equal association of the nations of our Commonwealth. “As my father said on the occasion of his Silver Jubilee, the unity of the British Empire is no longer expressed hy the supremacy of the time-honoured Parliament that sits at Westminster. It finds expression to-day in a fri'e association of nations enjoying common principles of government, a common attachment, to the ideals of peace and freedom, and bound together hy n common allegiance to the Crown. “The Queen and I have been deeply touched by the warmth of the welcome accorded us since our arrival in Canada. We are greatly looking forward to our visit to each of the provinces, and before our return to paying a brief visit to the United States. “It is my earnest hope th.a.t my present visit may give my Canadian people a deeper conception of their unity as a nation, f hope also that my visit to the United States will help to maintain the very friendly relations existing between that great country and the , nations of the Commonwealth. “These visits, like the one recently made by the Queen and myself to the Continent of Europe will, we trust, be viewed as an expression of the spirit of our peoples which seeks ardently for closer friendship and better relations not only with otir kith and kin, but with the peoples of all nations and races. i “Honourable members of the Senate and members of the House of Commons: May the blessing of Divine Providence rest upon your labours and upon my realm of Canada.’’ SUPERB CEREMONY. Summoned by His Majesty through the Gentleman Usher- of the Black lload, members of the House of Commons appeared -at the Bar of the Senate with their Speaker and the Mace, the Speaker addressing the Throne in English and then in French. They presented the Supply Bill under"which the expenses of the Public Service are met and humbly requested His Majesty’s consent. The Clerk Assistant of the Senate received the Bill and returned to the foot of the Throne and read the title in English and French, whereupon ihe Clerk of Parliaments announced, also in English and French. “His Majesty thanks his loyal subjects and accepts their benevolence, and assents to this Bill.’’ The Clerk Assistant then addressed the Throne in English and French, “May it please Your Majesty, the •Senate and the House of Commons have passed the following Bills to which they humbly request lour Alajest.v’s assent.” He read the titles of all Bills passed during the session, starting with the important United States and Canadian trade agreement, whereupon the Clerk of Parliaments announced, “His Majesty doth assent to these Bills.” TUMULTUOUS WELCOME. Their Majesties and those in waiting then left the Chamber and the 75,000 people massed outside Parliament Buildings gave them a tumultuous welcome. Two hundred thousand more lined the route to Government House. The King summoned Mr Mackenzie King to Government House to-night, when he engrossed the trade treaty and other measures with “1 assent to this Bill.” He ga.ve Mr Mackenzie King a leather volume containing the Bills, and also the pen with which he had endorsed them.