WAIPUKURAU MAY BE FIRST TOWN IN EMPIRE TO PROCLAIM KING
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WAIPUKURAU, This Day. Waipukurau will probably be the first town in New Zealand, if not in the British Empire, to proclaim George VL King, as a result' of the decision to read the Proclamation at 8.45 a.m. to suit other functions being held on that day. Had it been decided to read it at 11 a.m., as is being done in most other towns in New Zealand, Napier would have been the first to proclaim the new King as it is the most eastern town in New Zealand. If the Proclamation is read at 11 o'clock in Fiji, which is the most eastern portion of the Empire, the Waipukurau Proclamation, read at 9.45, will be the first sucb ceremony to be held in the Empire, chronologically.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 76, 16 April 1937, Page 3
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