A ROYAL SALUTE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1433, 7 May 1912, Page 4

A ROYAL SALUTE.

WHICH TEW HEARD. Yesterday, the anniversary of the accession to tho Throne of his Majesty Kiuff George V, was officially observed m Wellington by a display of bunting t at the Government officos, and by the firing of a royal salute by a party of tie Rojal New Zealand Artilelry at Pipitea Point. Considering ths fact that there was a stiff southerly blowing during the day, the litilo bronze gnns ut the saluting battery might have literally roared themselves'hoarse, for nil the impression the demonstration might have created in th». city, for very few heard the eahtte. The situation of the saluting battery has long been regarded by tho military authorities as unsuitable for the purposo. Some time ago the corporation was 0])proached by the Defence Department with a request for permission to transfer the guns to a convenient and moro central position in Kclburne Park, but some of the councillors took a pessimistic view of the proposition, and saw visions of iralo residents of the heights rising in protest against any such suggestion, and <ho question was accordingly dropped. It is understood, however, that tho waiter i« being again considered, and that it is not nniiclv that the saluting battery maky be established at Mount Cook, in the vicinitv-of Alexander Barracks.