THE QUEEN MOTHER.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4907, 25 November 1925, Page 2

THE QUEEN MOTHER.

FUNERAL ON FRIDAY.

MEMORIAL SERVICES.

THE MOURNING PERIOD.

The Governor-General has been advised that the official funeral, service for her late Majesty Queen Alexandra will be held at 11.30 a.m. on Friday next, in Westminster Abbey. His Excellency therefore suggests that ( any memorial services which it is to proposed to hold in New Zealand should be held at eleven o’clock on Friday morning next, as the nearest appropriate time for coinciding with the Westminster Abbey service. The Governor-General has been informed further that His Majesty the King has directed that the flying of flags at half-mast on Government buildings in Great Britain should be continued until next Saturday, it would accordingly be appropriate if similar procedure were observed in New Zealand as regards public buildings.

His Majesty has commanded that the Court should wear mourning for three months from November 20 ; half mourning to be from January 20* to February 20. Special instructions are being issued to the defence forces for the observance of mourning. ST. PAUL'S CHURpH. In accordance with the wish of the Governor-General a service in memory of the late Queen Mother will be held at 11 o’clock on Friday morning at St. Paul’s Church, Paeroa. *■' 1 : —* ————: — ■ ; ROMAN CATHOLIC TRIBUTE. REFERENCE BY FATHER DUNPHY. In the course of his sermon at the morning service at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Paeroa, on Sunday, the Rev. Father Dunphy, referring to the death of the late Queen Mother, said :— ' ■

“Deatlr has removed from the Royal Family' a personage deeply beloved by the nation—the Queen Mother. In this hour of national, sorrow we pay our sincere and lasting respect to one whese quiet dignity, high principled character and charitable heart- endeared her to all. classes. We unite With our fellow countrymen in tribute of sympathy to the Royal House in the great loss that, according to human nature, they have suffered—but a loss accentuated by the inspiring and directive influence she signally exercised amongst them. Nothing in our national life has been so touchingly beautiful as the love and affection Queen Alexandra drew to herself and in turn dispensed around her. What an admirable reflection of her noble worth i*s the deeply human devotion, child-like in its warmth, of the King-Emperor for his mother — a devotion shared, indeed, by .all members of the Royal Family and emulated by the nation. An exemplary Queen and a devoted mother, she implanted in her children and in her children’s children those broad humanitarian principles and popular democratic tendencies that have been the distinguishing characteristics, of the Royal Family in this generation. May her influence still, unfold itself among her descendants and help them fulfil their role unto all that is noble, just, and charitable in our national life.”