THE CORONATION OATH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23108, 6 February 1937, Page 13

THE CORONATION OATH

HOUSE. OF COMMONS BILL SECOND READING CARRIED CAPETOWN, Feb. 4. In the course of the debate on the Coronation Oath Bill, which passed its second reading, members of the Dominion Party asserted that the Bill proved the Government's determination to maintain the divisibility of the Crown. General Hertzog replied: "We-no longer belong to Britain. No longer are we tied to 'Grandma's' apron strings. We now stand on a par with her." THE GIST OF THE BILL CAPETOWN, Feb. 5. (Received Feb. 5, at 9 p.m.) The Coronation Oath Bill does not give the actual terms of the oath, but declares " the oath shall be administered by the King at the Coronation, the purport c f which shall be that he will govern the people of the Union according «*o Statutes agreed on in the Union Parliament and according to their othei laws and customs and that he will cause law. justice, and mercy to be executed in all his judgments." Genera] Hertzog said the Bill provided a common form of oath to which the Dominion Governments had agreed The Bil* also provides for the Governor-General to appoint a person to administer the oath or arrange with any other dominion for a collective oath. " in a form to be agreed upon"