PLANS FOR KING’S JUBILEE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20096, 1 May 1935, Page 7

PLANS FOR KING’S JUBILEE

VANGUARD OF CROWD ARRIVES THIRTY BANDS TO TAKE PART British Official Wireless (Received April 30, 5.5 p.m,) RUGBY, April 29. London had a loretaste during the week-end of the great crowds to be expected during Jubilee Week. Hundreds of thousands of people in cars and on foot paraded through the streets to see the decorations and watch the floodlighting rehearsals. So great was the crush that special police reinforcements were required to direct the traffic. It is estimated that London’s Jubilee visitors exceed 500,000 these including a great number from the British Dominions as well as many from the United States and Europe. All Dominion and other Prime Ministers in London for the Jubilee will drive in procession to St. Paul's Cathedral for next Monday’s thanksgiving service. The latest Dominion Prime Minister to arrive is General Hertzog, who has reached Southampton from Cape Town. In a brief statement he conveyed cordial greetings from the people of South Africa to those of Britain, ending with sincere congratulations on the “great and happy event which shortly will be commemorated throughout the commonwealth, and which to them, no less than to you, will constitute an occasion of deep-felt joy and gratitude.” The chain of 750 beacons which is to be lit on Jubilee night throughout the country, has been completed by the Boy Scouts. “The Daily Telegraph” understands that about thirty bands, provided by the regulars, territorial and police, will be stationed along the route of the jubilee procession to entertain the waiting crowds.

POST OFFICE PLANS IMPORTANT CONCESSIONS AT JUBILEE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received April 30, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, April 29. A precedent of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, when important postal concessions took effect, will be followed on the occasion of the King's Silver Jubilee. The Postmaster-General (Sir Kingsley Wood) announced in the House of ’ Commons that the concessions include: (1) A reduction of telegram charges to a new rate from pjlay 31st, to 6d for nine words and Id for each additional word; (2) a new parcels scale of 6d for 31b with Id for each additional pound up to 91b and a flat rate of 1/- from 91b to 151 b; (3) the extension of the telephone service, making the telephone by the end of 1936 as readily available in rural and remote parts of the country as in the cities and towns and involving the installation of an additional 1000 telephone call offices; (4) an improvement in Empire communications by the introduction on June 16 of an Imperial Id postcard rate, instead of the lid rate. As a special jubilee concession between May 6 and May 31, the standard radio telephone rates between Britain, the Dominions and India will be reduced by one-half.