SCHOOLS & CORONATION

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 74, 14 April 1937, Page 5

SCHOOLS & CORONATION

Departmental Communication On the day before the eoronation of King George Yl. and Queen Elizabeth, school children of Hawke 's Bay are going to he told the significance of the eoronation . This is to he done in accordanee with a recommendation by the Government, which has thoroughly approved of sehopls taking their full share in celebrating the event. Advice received by the Napier Secondary Education Board from the Education Depaitment relative to the share of school children in the celebrations states the following: — (a) That pupils of each school should assemble therein at 9 a.m. on eoronation day, and after some euitable ceremony to disperse for the day. (b) That on the day before the eoronation, all schools be requested to recognise and explain to scholars, as part of the school curriculum, the significance of the eoronation. i (c) That in cases where local authorities desire the children to take part in some combined local effort, the question of allowing the children so to take part be left to the discretion of the local Education Board and secondary school authorities, it being clearly understood that no Government financial assistance will be given. (d) Schools are to be urged to provide some suitable symbqli of commemoration,v for example, the planting of a tree in the school grounds. (e) That each school be provided, free of cost, with a permanent souvenir of the eoronation.