AT WEMBLEY.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1924, Page 4

AT WEMBLEY.

(.•('KEN'S BUY SHAWLS AND SAPPHIRES.

LONDON. Alav 1o

Yesterday limy fnirly lie described ns tin- day Wembley found itself. Hy ono of those clianr-os which occur to institutions. as to persons. everything seemed to conic together all at once.

Summer hurst on the exhibition, warm, complete, cloudless slimmer; the suu shone down and the trees and flowers in the grounds .seemed to blossom up to meet it, thousands upon thousands of visitors poured into the grounds—the largest gathering hy far since the opening, observers believe—so that all the roads and ways were peopled and alive; and to crown all the King and Queen brought their cousins of Roumania to Wembley to set the stamp and seal on the day. If there was one party in the exhibition v.hirh seemed to lie enjoying itself it v. ns ibo royal one. The King particularly was in tbe highest possible spirits: in the Newfoundland pavilion he was smiling and full of sallies like a man without a care. ALL FOl'R CAR LANDED.

And all along the two Kings and Queens had had a triumphant progress. Cheering, delighted crowds poured after them from the moment they arrived .about II at the Palace of Industry. In tbe Palace of Engineering people ran along and jumped over dynamos and exhibits in order to cut olf corners and got nearer to them. The Queen was in coo! grey and the

King in a lounge suit. King Ferdinand sported a white (lower in his but-ton-lade and as for Queen Marie she was wonderful in white witli a wide green hat covered with llowers, and a nmgnilicent. stupendous bunch of wa-tcr-TTlies decorating her hosiini. Lord Stevenson and all the exhibition authorities accompanied them. To say all they did would lake a long long lime. They stood on Maple Bridge and looked at the lake stretching sweet in the sun on to the Indian pavilion, and were snapshotted by hundreds of loyal—and very agitated—<amcras from every point of the Compaq's; they rode on their own “Railodok” electric ear. which looks like a nicely upholstered sect ion ol clnirehpews which has attained power ol movement ; and so thick were the handker-chief-waving. cheering onlookers that the ear only moved at walking pave.

QI'KK.N MARY'S SHAWL. They were garlanded, all four, mi the steps of the Indian pavilion by l.adv

Dalai, the High Commissioner's wife, with wreaths of 1 iliool the valley and carnations. 'I hey strolled reminiscently about the halls ol India, and the two Queens bought, ivory statuettes of Krishna, and Queen .Mary east a housewifely glance at the great array of Indian condiments here, and said how the King liked them. And there at an Agra and (hide stall she stopped and recognised her shawl, the shawl of flowered gold brocade which is called “Queen Mary’s'’ from the days of her vi-it and of course she bought one. and ol outlive Queen Marie did also—mid lovely tissues of pink and silver too.

THE BIGGEST SAPPHIRE. In Ceylon they took great sapphire* and rubies into their hands, amid them the greatest of all sapphires, and the Queens ordered sapphire bracelets.

They crossed the nibbles ol Old l.oml hi Bridge. They went through the Arcades and the tea-house of llong-kong. and the King of Roumania fell a victim to the charms of Chinese ginger and ordered eases to be cent him.

Then in (irnnada the Queens bought beautiful embroidered handkerchiefs. And so nt last through a fresh pre-s of visitors they came to his .Majc-ty's own Oovernment's pavilion and had luncheon with the Home Secretary. Then they saw two young Saxons stampin'! coins as they ii-.cd to stamp them in King Alfred's day. and Queen Mary minted the lirot medal from the great minting machine which points the contrast with Alfred's da vs. FOREST Of' PAPER.

And then they came to Newfoundland and graciously looked at the model of tlie Daily .Mail paper works there and at the great rolls of piper on u hi.'li this is printed, and the King v.a, must interested and wondered how the lo.s- of trees felled for the paper was ever mad • up, and was told it was not necessary to realfore-t. for in Newfoundland there "as .such coiitiniioii-sell'-propaganda of the tree-. The King of Roiiniaiiia looked at lb.paper rolls and said : "There's a in-

est ther.i" with a laugh, and l.lrnvn .Mary must ll've i.oiuc of the models oi sleighs and dog-t ■i.ini; mad - at (iivnIcir.- -cl > h-meat of Labrador.

King tlcorge was most, jovial about ill - line exhibit of cod-liver oil. and recalled limv it was given ; , him as a hoy with orange nine 10 mash the ta“lc. and said ii vu.s be-i ilcscrihcd as IMP rit 1011-.

THE Kl.Vt; Sit;NS III> NAME. (ini-on Marie insisted that the King should sign Ins iiam • in the hook with bar nun gold fountain-pen. and the King banished convention and confessed that he missed the help of his glasses. And so to Fiji where there were difIcreuls exhibits, hut the loyal greeting and the •ains bind friendly royal party. And so at In - r to the wailing motorami the most astonishing and supreme ride out of the grounds through the Amusements Park, with the wav lined bv cheering workmen and girls from booths in pierrot and revue costume; and vend irs of Ecbx. and all the peo-

pie in the switelibaek Handing up against orders ti see the King and Queen. and the cars only able in go at a la-.t walk, and girls from Lyons’ Hutlering round like llorks of magpies an:l crying: "I-n't she lovely'" as Queen .Mary taiseil her hand in a little salute close In her great sapphire and diamond earrings.