GUIDES' MESSAGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22726, 12 May 1937, Page 13

GUIDES' MESSAGE

LONG JOURNEY ENDED RECEPTION BY LORD GALWAY GOVERNMENT HOUSE CEREMONY [by telegraph—own correspondent] WELLINGTON, Tuesday Having gone all round New Zealand, the Girl Guides' Coronation message to be forwarded to King George and Queen Elizabeth arrived back at Wellington by air from the South Island this afternoon. When tho message was delivered at the Pongotai aerodrome, where patrol leaders were present, it was carried by relays to Government House, tho route being lined with guides and their friends. Colour parties (guides who carry standards) took up their position in the ballroom at Government House.

Followed by guides, the girl who was carrying the message approached the Governor-General, Viscount Galway, who met the guides. Asked who carried on tho message, Lord Galway replied, "I do," whereupon he took it and signed it. After this little ceremony, which was in the nature of a finale to the first act of the message's travels, His Excellency gave a talk on guide work. The message will now bo sent to London. LONDON CEREMONIES BROADCAST SCHEDULE PROCESSION AND SERVICE The Coronation service in Westminster Abbey, together with descriptions of the Royal procession from and to Buckingham Palace, will be broadcast on short-wave from the Empire station at Daventry to-night and tho transmissions will be rebroadcast by the four New Zealand YA stations. The order of the transmissions, according to New Zealand time, will be as follows: —8.-15 p.m.: Introduction. 9 p.m.: Commentary on the procession to the abbey. 9.45 p.m. to 12.15 a.m.: The Coronation service. 1.15 a.m.: Commentary on the return procession. Tho Empire's Homage Programme, in which short speeches Mill be made by representatives of every part of tho Empire and which will conclude with a speech by the King, is to be broadcast at 5.30 a.m. New Zealand time to-morrow. This also will be rebroadcast by tho YA stations. Recorded versions of tho Coronation ceremony and the. homage programme will bo transmitted from Daventry tomorrow at 3.30 and 5.30 p.m. respectively. The homage programme will be robroadcast by tho New Zealand stations. ENLARGED CONSTITUTION SIGNIFICANCE TO DOMINION REFERENCE IN SUPREME COURT [liv TELEGRAPH —press association] CHRISTCIIUKCH, Tuesday "On the eve of tho Coronation of His Gracious Majesty King George VI. I feel it proper to draw attention to that important event," said Mr. Justice Northcroft when addressing the grand jury at the opening of the Supreme Court criminal sessions this morning. "It is peculiarly important," His Honor added, "to us as His Majesty's subjects overseas, because for the first time, owing to the recent enlargement of the British Constitution through the Statute of Westminster, he has become the personal King of the people of New Zealand. To-morrow he takes the solemn oath to govern us, the people of New Zealand, according to our own statutes, and according to our own particular laws and customs. "It is apt also that reference should be made to this important matter on the opening of this circuit of the Court, as His Gracious Majesty will tomorrow take, on our behalf, _a solemn covenant to cause law and justice in mercy to he executed in all his judgments. This Court functions for him, and through him —judges and juries alike administer justice in his name, and I am sure you. as important officers of justice, will join with me in the fervent prayer that God may save the King." The assembly of the grand jury, among British peoples, said His Honor, was one of great antiquity, and was originally not confined to the consideration of matters relating to the administration of justice. Many matters of public importance were discussed and considered, and, even to-day in England —the fountainhead of the judicial system —it was customary for the presiding Judge to discuss with the grand jury matters of general public importance.