ROYAL VISITORS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23276, 20 February 1939, Page 6

ROYAL VISITORS

CANADA PREPARING ENTHUSIASM DISPLAYED ITINERARY PROBLEMS KING AND PARLIAMENT [from our own correspondent] OTTAWA. Feb. 1 Canada's Parliament may have tho Unprecedented experience next May of being prorogued by the Sovereign. The Prime Minister, Mr. W, L. Mackenzie King, has confirmed rumours that, if jtho work of the session is concluded by the time Their Majesties reach Ottawa, the King will be asked to prorogue Parliament. Scarcely a day has passed since Parliament opened that some member has not made enthusiastic reference to the forthcoming Royal tour. But it remained for the Prime Minister to give the intimate and interesting details. No attempt will be made to hurry the members in their prime task of conducting efficiently the business of the country. Their Majesties will arrive in Quebec ioi May 15 and remain in that ancient capital of Canada overnight. The King will deliver a speech at Quebec which will be broadcast nationally and probiably over an Empire network. Comfort While Travelling At Ottawa,' where the King will Celebrate Canada's advanced observance of his birthday on May 20, he will unveil the national war memorial and deliver an address. The Queen will lay tlie corner-stone of the new building for the Supreme Court of Canada, and probably deliver a brief address. There will be speeches by the King tot--- Winnipeg on Victoria Day (May E4), at Vancouver or Victoria (May 29) and at Halifax on the eve of his departure from Canada, June 15. All [will be broadcast. Because Their Majesties' travels will jcover more than 12,000 miles of almost constant movement the greatest cara lias been taken to make the tour as comfortable as possible. For this reason, the lioyal train will be sidejfcracked for six hours each night. Minimum o! Formal Functions This arrangement shortens the list of Etops and as a result there have been many protests from districts which consider themselves slighted in the official itinerary. Formal functions will be kept to a minimum and it is probable that, so far as Federal and Provincial Administrations are concerned, the reception will be kept "dignified and simple," as jirged by James S. Woodsworth, leader of the socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in the House of Commons.