TRADITION.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13163, 23 January 1936, Page 6

TRADITION.

AGE-010 CUSTOM CONTINUES

THE KING’S PROCLAMATION. (Received 12 noon.) United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Oopvright. LONDON. January 22. Not even the new King can challenge the* rights of the City of. London which are ever guarded jealously. When the procession reached Temple Bar tile city's dignitaries, headed by the Lord Mayor, assembled in the shadow of the Law Courts to challenge the King's officers’ right to enter the City. Crowds who had waited since daybreak were rewarded by the rarely seen spectacle of a single'red silken rope stretched across the street symbolising the Qity’s rights. A. triple fanfare from the King’s Trumpeters and an answering fan fan? from the City’s Trumpeters recalled London's struggles for freedom early in the Nation’s history. A Bluemantlo pursuivant in Arms, then rode forward alone “Who come. s there.” challenged the City’s Marshall, and the Pursuivant replied with his historic formula and was conducted to the Lord Mayor, to whom he delivered the Ordor-in-C ouncil directing the reading of the proclamation, which the Lord Mayor read aloud. He then ordered the removal of the barrier and the ] recession moved to the corner of Chancery Lane, fifty yards within the city boundary, similar to that at Charing Cross There the Proclamation was read with ceremony. The* crowd outside Charing Cross was one of the vastest seen in the precincts of the city. The air was so still and all was sc silent that every word uttered was distinctly audible. UNREHEARSE P SCENE. The demonstrations in the City contrasted with the reading of the Proclamation elsewhere. Immediately following the National Anthem, someone shouted "King Edward the Eighth.” The Lord Mayor, seeing the crowd desired to express its loyalty took off his three-cornered bat and waved it above his head, crying “■'Three cheers for the King.” Dignified in their scarlet robes the City Fathers led an immense burst of cheering, which was taken up by the densely packed crowds surrounding the streets. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen then formed a procession back to the Guildhall, thus closing another chapter in the City’s history.