SILVER JUBILEE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22563, 6 May 1935, Page 13

SILVER JUBILEE

PLANS FOR THE CELEBRATIONS 100,000 SEATS FOR THE PROCESSION GIFTS FOR THE POOR (By Air Mail.) (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, March 30. The Dean of St. Paul's has issued the details of the music which will be sung in St. Paul's Cathedral on May 6 at the Service of Thanksgiving for the King's jubilee. The service will begin with the singing of the first verse of the National Anthem by the congregation. The first hymn will be "All People that on Earth Do Dwell," to / thc tune "Old Hundredth." Psalm 95, verses 1-7, will be sung to the Chant by John Nares. The first two verses and the Gloria will be sung in unison. Psalm 121 will next be sung in unison. Psalm 121 will next be sung to the Chant (in E flat) by John Robinson. The hymn following the lessons will be " I Vow to Thee, My Country." The words are by the late Cecil Spring Rice, British Ambassador in Washington. After the Address will come the hymn " O God of Jacob, by Whose Hand,"- to the tune Martyrdom. The Te Deum has been composed for the occasion by Dr Stanley Marchant, organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, and dedicated, by permission, to the King. The first and third verses of the National Anthem, sung by the congregation, will end the service. LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL The London County Council is proposing to spend about £33,750 in connection with the celebrations. The programme includes: Extra out-relief of 2s to adults and Is for each child, at a cost of about £8850; 2s extra for necessitous blind people; spe ;ial entertainments in hospital; two half-holidays for schools, in addition to Jubilee Day itself; band performances in parks; day's holiday, with pay, for council employees. Old County Hall at Springfield Gardens will be illuminated and decorated. The council's bridges and buildings on the route of the royal processional drives will be decorated. Additional band performances will be given in 30 parks, gardens and 1 open spaces on May 6. Seventy thousand school children are to be assembled at Constitution Hill to see the procession on May 11. They will be drawn from districts not close to the routes of the royal drives. This will cost the council £2OOO.

At institutions under the control "f the Public Assistance Committee May 6. will be observed as a fete day, essential work only being performed. Extra food will be provided for both inmates and staff. Entertainments will be given to inmates and patients :.t all the council's hospitals, including the mental hospitals, where extra fare will be provided. ALBERT HALL SERVICE There will be a united service of thanksgiving and intercession at the Royal Albert Hall on May ,8. The Bishop of Norwich will preside, supported by representatives of the Church of England and the Free -Churches, including the Bishop of Stepney (representing the Bishop of London), Bishop Taylor Smith, the' moderator of the Presbyterian Church of England, the president of the Methodist Conference, the chairman of the Congregational Union, the president of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, members of Parliament, and others prominent in trie religious, philanthropic and social life of the country. CHAIN OF FIRES The King will light a beacon fire in Hyde Park 911 the night of May "6 as a signal for the lighting of the chain of fires by Scouts throughout the country. His Majesty will not go to Hyde Park, but -will light the beacon by pressing a button in Buckingham Palace. Details have already been received concerning (587 beacons in 50 county areas. The King will address the people of the Empire from Buckingham Palace, the microphone installations being similar to that adopted for the Christmas Day broadcasts from Sandringham. He will speak from a room on the ground floor overlooking the Palace gardens, the control point being in a room adjoining. The microphone circuits will be connected through this control and the Palace telephone switchboard to Broadcasting House. It is expected that he will speak for approximately three minutes. This will be his sixteenth broadcast, the first having taken place in April, 1924. When the King reviews his army at Rushmoor Arena on July '•', h<y and the Queen will be able to watch the pageant from the Royal Stand, which is above the terraced slopes on the fringe of this natural open-air stage. There is seating accommodation for over 70,000 spectators in the arena, where the Searchlight Tattoo has'been performed for many years. It is expected that between 20,000 and 30,000 troops will" take part in the review. PRICES FOR SEATS There is already a phenomenal demarkl for scats to view the royal jubilee procession. Estate agents, shops and ticket agencies are beginning to reap a rich harvest. Though the occasion is still some weeks ahead, the demand is already as strong as that immediately before the royal wedding last November. I'lioes, however, will be far lower than had been generally anticipated. A common agreement appears to have been reached on a top price of £ls 15s for well (situated seats. Other seats are available at len guineas and five guineas, and a very few at two guineas, according to situation. Single rooms of large size and good situation are being let to parties for 150 guineas. STREET DECORATIONS Their Majesties will enter the city by way of Temple Bar, where the Lord Mayor will await the arrival and present, and receive back, the City's Sword. Thence the procession will continue along Fleet street and Ludgate Hill to St. Paul's Cathedral, the return journey being by way of Cannon street and Queen Victoria' street on the boundary of the Lord Mayor's jurisdiction on the Embankment. Prom Temple Bar the

route runs through narrow streets, and tlie scheme of decoration has been devised accordingly. Streamers of' various Hags, including the Union Jack and the city's owii flag—the ancient flag of England, with the addition of the Sword of St. Paul—will be suspended right across from house to house. The flags will bu so selected that the red and white colours of the city will predominate. On the Embankment the city's decorations will be in harmony with those of the City of Westminster, except that here again the city colours will dominate the scheme. Special attention is being paid to Ludgate Hill railway bridge, the decoration of which is in the hands of the Royal College of Art, under the direction of .Sir William Rothenstein. Blackfriars railway bridge over Queen Victoria street, is being left to tlie students of the Slade School of Fine Arts, who are preparing a scheme. Temple bar is to be decorated with garlands and bannerettes in the city's colours. OFFICIAL PRAYER This is the prayer of thanksgiving that will be used in the King's Silver Jubilee Thanksgiving service at St. Paul's cathedral: "It is very meet, right and our boundeu duty that we should give thanks unto Thee, 0 Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, Everlasting God, for rlijit Thou wast pleased as on this day to set Thy servant our Sovereign Lord, King George upon the Throire of this Realm, and has protected him in days of sickness and of health throughout his reign of five and twenty years. ..."