FUNERAL DETAILS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18924, 28 January 1936, Page 5

FUNERAL DETAILS

ATTENTION BY KING FIVE FOREIGN MONARCHS EX-KAISER'S WREATH GOLDEN DUTCH TULIPS

(Reed. Jan. 28, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 27

The final details of arrangements for the funeral of King George were personally settled by King Edward, who motored, tired as he was, from Fort Beldovere to Windsor.

Upon the coffin, when it is lowered in the vault, at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, King Edward will cast a handful of English earth. King George will be buried with full honours of an Admiral of the Fleet. When the remains are placed on a gnu carriage at Windsor station, they will be piped aboard by two bosuns and eight bosuns' mates. The bier will he piped alongside when it reaches the flight of steps leading to St. George's Chapel, and will again bo piped aboard when, the bearers carry the coiEn to the. chapel. The ceremonies are analagous to the procedure observed when an admiral boards one of the ships of the fleet.

Five Kings will attend the funeral. They are King Haakon, of Norway, King Leopold, of Belgium, King Christian, of Denmark, King. Carol, of Rumania, and King Boris, of Bulgaria.

The. Dukes of Gloucester and Kent and other distinguished persons met King Christian of Denmark, and the Crown Prince and Crown Princess Ingrid of Sweden on their arrival at. Victoria station, after which they went to Buckingham Palace.

The ex-Kaiser, who is celebrating his 77th birthday to-day in the greatest simplicity in view of the British mourning, is sending a wreath of 500 golden Dutch tulips and ,arum lilies, with a white ribbon attached, bearing the initials of his wife and himself. It will be carried by Prince Frederick, his grandson. The wreath sent by the Emperor, of Japan consists of 500 white carnations and orchids, tied with red and white ribbon.

On the route to Windsor, which is already uncomfortably congested, seats are selling at £6 6s apiece.

VIENNA VISIT RECALLED ADVICE TO FUTURE KING UNION LEADER'S VIEW VIENNA, .ran. 27. The deputy-Mayor of Vienna, in a newspaper article recalling the visit to Vienna city tenements last year by King Edward,-who was then the Trince of Wales, significantly mentions a Trade Union leader, who stepped forward and said: "When you are King, pray do not forget the .workmen. Sec that they get bread and peace. Yon look as though you had the qualifications." The article relates that on the same visit the King, addressing school teachers, compared the Australian with the Swedish and British educational methods, and showed enthusiasm when informed what was regarded as an improvement here on the older methods.