Blaze of Colour

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 79, 24 June 1927, Page 1

Blaze of Colour

PARLIAMENT OPENS POMP AND CEREMONY (THE SUN'S Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Friday. T'HE opening of Parliament today was characterised by a fiteater blaze of colour and much "lore ceremony than the comm«ncement of the session last w * r > when the Governor-General w »* prevented from being present ° n account of indisposition. **o“* the weather had been tion , raln beared for the inspection l^e guard-of-honour. and his eoJrt ncy> ' n Iu " scarlet dress, presoer, a spectacular figure, with his js®aal escort and bodyguard, cha the Legislative Council the T|l “ er Wa s all pomp and formality. cro»a Ba^er ies were filled with a big ifmve moatl y women, whose buzz of Alio r l ation suddenly ceased as Lady the ei , rgusson was ushered in by * C . " k of Parliament, iencv I* . * ater followed his Excel Rod ’ and the wait while Black House , moned “embers of the Council v Representatives to the the g euamber for the reading of which ®™ or ' Ge neral’s speech, after takers p *® 8 . were handed to the quintlv ieer* 1 Houses, and subseby the . on table for perusal The “embers. Alice i..' ) ov ® rnor -General and Lad) The u m , e chamber together. *hile aim then met for a short adjourned till to morrow.