EMPIRE DAY IN LONDON
British OScisl Wirelesn.I
Thanksgiving Service At St. PauFs R0YALTY TO ATTEND
(Received 24, 11.30 a.m.), RUGBY, May 23 Empire Day will be eelebrated on Monday and in London the central features of the celebrationa will be the service at St. Paul's Cathedral, which will also be regarded as a service of thanksgiving for the Coronation of the King and Queen. Queen Mary, together with 21 other members of the Royal Family, will attend, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, most of his Cabinet colleagu'xs", as well as the Prime Ministers and others representing the Dominions, India and the colonxal Empire In their procession down St. Panl's, where they will be received by the Bishop of London, the dean and chaplain, the King and Queen will be preceded by t'he Lord Mayor of London, bearing the Oity's pearl sword. An interestin'g feature of the service is that the first lesson will be read by the Prime Minister of Canada and the second by tbe Modexator of tbe Federal Council of the Evangelical Free Church. The Archbishop of York will preach the sermon.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 108, 24 May 1937, Page 7
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187EMPIRE DAY IN LONDON Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 108, 24 May 1937, Page 7
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