KING'S SYMPATHY
SOLDIERS IN HOSPITALS DISTRIBUTION PLANS (Herd. May 3, noon.) LONDON, May 2. The King's personal message of sympathy and goodwill to be sent to exservice men in hospitals throughout the Empire on the occasion of the Coronation will bo distributed world-wide on the morning of Coronation Day, accompanied by an official souvenir Coronation programme. Mr. Herwald Rnmsbotham, the Minister of Pensions, referring to the difficulty of speedily distributing the programme, which has only just been printed, says it is essential to send programmes weighing 4cwt. to New Zealand and Australia, to which there are no parcels air mails. The Imperial Airways authorities overcame the difficulty by generously sending copies by the regular air service.
ANOTHER REHEARSAL VISIT TO THE CTTY (Reed. May .'), 11.30 a.m.) ' LONDON, May 2. There was another Coronation rehearsal earlv to-day, this time for tha visit, of the King and Queen to the City on May 1!>. State landaus and mounted troops passed from Buckingham Palace along the Mall, the Strand, and Fleet Street to the Guildhall, returning via the Embankment. The times were carefully checked.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 5
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