EMPIRE BROADCAST

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 8

EMPIRE BROADCAST

KING’S CORONATION

EARLY-MORNING RECEPTION I 1 »«r Press Association. J WELLINGTON, May 3. The broadcast of the “Empire homage programme,” which will be one of the features of the Coronation ceremony on May 12, will be received in the Dominion between 5.50 a.m. and 6.40 a.m., New Zealand time, on May 13, and rebroadcast from the four national stations. The King will be heard from 6.30 a.m. to 6.40 a.m. CORONATION DAY HOLIDAY ARRANGEMENTS I Per Pre.*} Association. T WELLINGTON, May 3. May 12 will be observed as a holiday by the Government departments and local bodies. Private employers are not required to observe the day as a statutory holiday, but are asked by the Government to co-operate.

ANOTHER REHEARSAL ROUTE TO GUILDHALL. LONDON, May 2. There was another Coronation rehearsal early to-day, this time for the visit of the King and Queen to the City on May 19. State landaus afid mounted troops passed from Buckingham Palace along the Mall, the Strand, and Fleet Street to the Guild, returning via the embankment. The times were carefully checked. MESSAGE TO EX-SERVICEMEN DISTRIBUTION ARRANGED. LONDON, May 2. The King’s message to ex-service-men will be distributed throughout the world on the morning o£ Coronation Day, accompanied by an official scuvenir Coronation programme. The Hon. H. Ramsbotham, Minister of Pensions, referring to difficulty of speedily distributing the programme, which has only just been printed, says that it was essential to send programmes weighing 4cwt. to New Zealand and Australia, to which there was no parcels air mail. Imperial Airways overcame the difficulty by generously sending copies by the regular air service.

BOEING BOMBERS AN ATLANTIC FLIGHT. Received May 3, 11.5 p.m. SEATTLE, May 3. The Seattle Times says the United States Army is secretly planning to fly three Boeing bombers across the Atlantic in honour of the Coronation and in commemoration of Lindbergh’S crossing.