SYDNEY DISAPPOINTED.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17170, 30 March 1927, Page 5

SYDNEY DISAPPOINTED.

/ v THIN EXPLANATION. SYDNEY, March 29. Many letters appear in the news papers loudly protesting against the way in which the Royal procession was rushed through the streets on Saturday. The protestants claim that after waiting for hours in ihe streets, people were robbed of all reasonable chance of viewing the Royal visitors. Some writers go so far as to describe it as an insult to the public, upon whose presence so much' of the success and spectacular efFect of the demonstration depended. One sugL gests that the procession be repeated and the alleged blunder thereby righted. The State organiser olfers t?ie explanation that it was imijossible for the higli-powered cars used to go below a certain speed. The managing director of the company supplying the cars' employed corrects this, stating that similar cars were used in New ' Zealand, where the processions were kept at a lower speed, and this appeared satisfactory to everyone. The speed set for the Sydney procession was six miles, but the time occupied prov^d this was very considerably exceeded. The pace in New Zealand was set at four miles an hour, There were, it is understood, reasons for making a quick start, but not for maintaining the speed throughout.