TRIBUTES TO KING EDWARD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20327, 28 January 1936, Page 7

TRIBUTES TO KING EDWARD

INTEREST IN WELFARE OF MASSES FREE STATE ATTITUDE TO CROWN United Pres.” Association—By 'Sloetrie Telegraph—Copyright (Received January 27, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, January 27. King Edward has already effected changes at Buckingham Palace. He will work on the ground floor instead of In his father’s first floor study. He has chosen a smallish room, formerly a waiting room which was furnished largely with gifts from the Empress of China to King Edward VII. Some furniture has been now removed to make room for the King’s desk and other equipment. The simple decorations include paintings of Royal racehorses. VISIT TO VIENNA RECALLED FAVOURABLE IMPRESSION CREATED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received January 27, 7.20 p.m.) VIENNA, January 27. The Deputy-Mayor of Vienna, in a newspaper article recalling King Edward’s visit to a Vienna city tenement last year, significantly mentions a Trades Union leader who stepped forward and said: “When you are King pray do not forget the workmen. See that they get bread and peace. You look as though you had the qualifications.” The article relates that on the same visit the King, in addressing school teachers, compared the Austrian with the Swedish and British educational methods, and showed enthusiasm when informed of what he regarded as an improvement here on the older methods. FREE STATE AND THE CROWN NOT PARTICIPATING IN ROYAL FUNERAL United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received January 27, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, January 27. The Dublin correspondent of “The Times” says it is increasingly evident that the Free State Government does not intend to participate in the Royal funeral in any way implying loyalty, either to the Crown or the Commonwealth of Nations. Even whether Mr J. W. Dulanty (Irish Free State High Commissioner in London) will represent the Government at the London ceremonies has not yet been announced. Meanwhile although 70 members of the Irish Bar sent a message of sympathy to King Edward, other members pointed out that the message was entirely private and must not be regarded as an expression of corporate feeling. The Chief Justice (the Hon. Hugh Kennedy) also explains the suspension of sittings of the Supreme Court tomorrow, was due to the request of barristers desiring to attend Church services.