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Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 348, 1 May 1935, Page 6

Arrangements for the official New Zealand Government ceremonies in connection with the King’s silver jubilee on Monday next have been completed. Monday., is to be a paid holiday for all Government employees, including casual labourers and those working under awards. In acquainting local bodies throughout the Dominion with this decision the Government has asked that a similar policy should bb adopted by local bodies. It also incites employers throughout the Dominion to fall into line and asks that similar consideration be given to all workers where circumstances permit. The replies to' hand indicate that the Government’s request has been received favourably by local bodies.

A religious service at which addresses will be given by Viscount Galway, Gov-ernor-General, and the Hon. E. A. Ransom, acting-Prime Minister, be held at 11 a.m. on the steps of Parliament Buildings. This will be followed by a march past' of troops, Lord Galway taking the salute from a dais on the steps of Parliament House.

The Dominion Boy Scouts’ Association has been invited, and has cordially agreed, to light a chain of bonfires throughout the Dominion. To this end the departments of Land and Survey and Forestry are co-operating with the various branches of the Boy Scouts’ Association with the' object of facilitating arrangements and of seeing that due care is exercised to avoid the destruction of native bush. The bonfire chain will be similar to that'proposed in Great Britain.