BULLETIN STATES KING’S PROGRESS IS BEING MAINTAINED

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6850, 4 March 1929, Page 7

BULLETIN STATES KING’S PROGRESS IS BEING MAINTAINED

With Word of Warning

NORMAL ACTIVITY IS STILL MONTHS AWAY BOGNOR SUNSHINE. United Press Association —By Electric Telegrapn—Copyright. Received Monday, 2 a.m. LONDON, Mar. 2. • Lord Dawson’s return after a fortnight’s recuperation on the Riviera resulted in the first bulletin from Bognor since his departure. It states that the King has made satisfactory progress in the last fortnight. His weight and strength have increased and sleep is refreshing His Majesty,'who is now able to read and apply his mind for short periods. “We must, however, recall that one of the most anxious features of His Majesty’s grave illness was severe exhaustion, due to prolonged toxaemia. Therefore, careful avoidance of any sustained effort of body or mind will < bo necessary for a lengthened period, in order to ensure that completeness of recovery which, though still some months distant, we confidently anticipate.” Sir Stanley Hewett and Lord Dawson

signed the bulletin, A semi-ofiicial comment says the bulletin is definitely satisfactory and justifies the King’s removal to Bognor but it is designed to restrain the bo* lief. in some quarters that the King has completely recovered. The weather to-day at Bognor was the best sinco his removal, there being brilliant sunshine and the absence of east wind. The King watched the crowds on the sands and also the racehorses which had been driven thither from tho frozen tracks.

The King had his own gramophone brought from Buckingham Palace and spends much time listening to the music from several hundred records.