"KING'S MESSENGERS"

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)

"KING'S MESSENGERS"

GUIDES SPEED LOYAL MESSAGE. $ \ D0MIN10N CORONATION TRIBUTE. On the early stages of a Dominion journey which will see it carried by runners, cyclists, swimmers, on horseback and practically every form of travel the New Zealand Girl Guide^ coronation message to the King and Quccn passed through New Plymouth on Thursday. In an impressive ceremony the seal of the borough of New Plymouth was affixed to the message by the Mayor, Mr. E. R. C.. Gilmour. Last week the message, in the form of an illustrated address in Maori, with the English translation, executed on vellum left Government House on its journey up the west coast from one guide district to another. On Thursday afternoon guide cyclists from the Inglewood company reached the New Plymouth borougb boundary at Avenue Road, where members of the Tuahine company carried the message in relays of runners to the borough council chambers. A guard of honour lined the entrance to the chamber, where a colour party stood on the dais to receive the message. Mrs. Cecil Burgess, provincial commissioner, and Mrs. W. Jarvis, district commissioner, were present at the ceremony' when the Mayor asked for the formula from the last runner. "Speed on King's Messenger," said the runner, "God Save the King." And another relay had completed its loyal task. On the message sped at thc hands of Mananui and Te Mara guides to the Waiwakaiho River bridge, at the northern boundary of the borough. Here Guide Erice Webster, of the Tuahine company, swam the chilly waters of the river to hand on the packets to Guides Joan Jarvis and Joan Treweek, wbo rode a further stage of the journey on bicycles to Bell Block.