OBSERVATION OF HOLIDAY
NOT COMPULSORY BY PRIVATE EMPLOYERS rvoTJEST BY GOVERNMENT TO CO-OPERATE Telegraph- ITesp Association] WELLINGTON. This Day. Coronation Day, Wednesday, 12th May, will be observed as a holiday by all Government Departments and local bodies. Private employers are not required to observe the day as a statutory holiday, but are being asked by the Government to co-operate. TIME OF RECEPTION The broadcast of what is known as the “Empire Homage Programme." which will be one of the features of the Coronation ceremony on 12th May, will be received in New Zealand between 5.50 o’clock and 6.40 o'clock (New Zealand time) on the morning of 13th May. and it will be rebroadcast from the four main national stations at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin.
It is proposed to record the programme here as it comes through, and this will be rebroadcast again at 5.30 p.m. on the 13th. A Maori speaker will convey the greetings of the Dominion from this end. and a sailor will speak. Both are anonymous. The Prime Ministers, who will be in London for the Imperial Conference, will speak on behalf of their respective Dominions. The programme will be concluded by a talk by the newly-crowned King, who will be heard from 6.30 a.m. to 6.40 a.m. New Zealand time.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 4 May 1937, Page 2
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