CORONATION DATE.

Wairarapa Age, 26 May 1936, Page 5

CORONATION DATE.

ONE YEAR FROM TO MORROW ARRANGEMENTS BEING SET IN MOTION. TIME-HONOURED CUSTOMS & OBSERVANCES. LONDON, May 24. The “Daily Mail,” in announcing that, the King’s Coronation, will take place on Thursday, May 27, 1937, says that the King next Thursday will sign an Order in Council setting in motion the Coronation arrangements, after which the Kings of Arms, in their scarlet and gold, with heralds and pursuivants in attendance, on. Friday will proclaim the Coronation date at Temple Bar, Charing Cross, the Royal Exchange, and St. James's Palace. Then the Privy Council will immediately begin the establishment of a Court of Claims, under the presidency of the Lord Chancellor, a body which exists only to decide which English citizens are privileged to attend the King at his Coronation, including who shall carry each of his gloves and spurs, who shall be the hereditary poulterer and bearer of the third sword, anH also whether the Mayors of the Cinque Ports shall carry the canopy over the King. All claimants who are upheld will have excellent positions at the Coronation, but many claims will probably be rejected, like that of the woman who claimed to be “chief herb-strewer, for King George's Coronation/ 7 The King's crown has already been removed from the Tower to enable it to be made to fit his Majesty. The Duke of York, the Heir Presumptive, will make a State visit to Wales in 1937 to represent the King at a formal equivalent of the Coronation. He will also travel to foreign Courts to formally announce the accession.