KING’S CORONATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 110, 11 May 1936, Page 8

KING’S CORONATION

PLANS FOR EMPIRE SPECTACLE I - • ANZACS" IN MILE-LONG PROCESSION. '.Special to "Chronicle." By Air Mail) The thousands ot Australia .« an j New Zealanders who will come 10 England for the King’s Coronation will lead with interest the p.ang fc-r that great ceremony this week. A spec ial committee will be set up to stipend I the arrangements for what will be one of the most magnilicent spectacles in British history. This committee will consist of the Duke of Norfolk—the Earl-Marshal—-the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Sir John Simon, Mrs. OrmsbyGore, the First Commisisoner of Works, and the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. It is calculated that 3,000,00(1 people will see the procession—-this faking a long route in order to spread the vastconcourse of people over the widc.it area. London will be the scene of glittering splendour and pageantry. In addition to the King’s gilded coach there will be twenty other State coaches of various kinds. Ten ruling Kings and Queens, from oilier countries, will be there in their full regalia. Behind them will ride ISO Indian Princes in all their picturesque Pi fly thousand regular troops, fiffv thousand territorials, ten thousand sailors .and Jive thousand airmen will line the streets. With them will be the. once familiar Anzac. troops from Australia, New Zealand, negro troops from Africa, and the famous “Mounties” from Canada. The mile long procession will be in three parts. First will come 15 car-ria'-es. preceded by mounted trumpeters. and escorted by Horse Guards, conveying the Royal guests. Next will come live carriages : n which will ride Queen Mary, the Royal Princesses, and other members of the Royal Family. Then will come the King in the Coronation Coach, followed by his suite lin four other coaches. Riding behind him will be his three brothers, the Duke of York, The Duke of Gloucester, and the .Duke of Kent in full regimental dress. In the centre of the Abbey, which will be decorated with blue and purple • velvet, a raised square platform will be erected. On it will be placed a throne where the King will sit before and after he enters the 600-year-old Coronation Chair, which will be placed nearer the altar. As the King enters, schoolboys, exercising their age-old privilege of shouting in the Abbey, will greet him with shouts in Latin of ‘‘Long Live King Ed wa rd.' ’ Already industry is planning for the event, which it is calculi ,ed will pi £25,000,000 into its coflc.s and provide employment for more than 100,000 people. London hotels arc expecting 100,000 visitors from abroad.