KING AND CORPORAL
COLOURS FOR A SCHOOL. . ! The King and Queen had a busy | round of engagements for their last day 'in Edinburgh lately. In the morning 1 the King inspected the Fourth Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders (Territorials), and presented new colours to the Queen Victoria School the grunds of the Palace of Holyroodhou.se. In the afternoon Their Majesties spent more than an hour in the grounds of the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens, and in the evening attended a command performance of Sir Arthur Pinero’s 1 ‘The Enchanted Cottage” at the Lyceum Theatre. A 16-year-old boy, Colour-Corporal P. Ewen, was the central figure at the parade of the Queen Victoria School. With two school fellows. Boy Piipe Major W. Macdonald and Monitor W. Ramsay, he was chosen to receive the now colour. Seven hundred officers and men of the Gordons watched him as he knelt before the King to receive the colours. Then he stepped hack and dipped them slowly in salute with the precision of a Guards officer. The King, in the uniform of a Field Marshal, returned the salute. process and are of great beauty. Also screening is “The Red Ensign,” a stirring and unusual story of a. shipbuilder’s efforts to revive British merchant trade and defeat foreign competition. Leslie Banks and Carol Goodner have the leading roles.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 210, 5 September 1934, Page 12
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