B.B.C. CORONATION BROADCAST
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Empire's Homage to the King DOMINIONS' PART
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LONDON, May I. The Broadcasting Corporation has issued final details of the Empire's homage. It will open with a reco-V.ed extract of the Coronation service followed by a recorded "flash" of the royal procession after which a septuagenarian Londoner who remembers George Fifth '& and Edward Seventh 's coronations and Queen Victoria 's golden and diamond jubilees will be the first representative ..citizea oflfering homage. Other Britons will include an Aberdeen woman who will greet Queen Elizabeth from'native Scotland. The Premiers' homage will bo interspersed .with that of representatives of their Dominions, including a jackaroo speaking from Sydney, a New Zealand sailor and a Maori spokesman using the native tongue from Wellington. As London calls each Dominion speoially composed trumpet fanfares will be "^ayed. The rehearsals are on May 3. a
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 90, 3 May 1937, Page 8
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