ON KING'S BEHALF
COMMISSION TO ACT ANNOUNCEMENT IN HOUSE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. Noon. LONDON, Tuesday. In the House of Commons, the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, announced the appointment of a Commission to act on behalf of the King. It consists of the Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, Baron Hailsham, and the Prime Minister. The Order-in-Council was signed by his Majesty himself, and loud cheers greeted it. The Central News Agency says the Privy Council, in connection with the Commission, was held in the King’s bedroom. A British official wireless message says the last occasion on which a Commission was appointed to act for the King wag when, in March, 1925, his Majesty went for a yachting cruise in the Mediterranean during his convalescence from an illness less severe, but similar to that from which he is now suffering. Before the statement was made in the House of Oommons this afternoon, regarding the State Commission to act for the King, Mr. J. R. dynes, on behalf of the Labour Party, had asked whether any arrangements had been made for transacting business during the regrettable illness of his Majesty. In putting the question Mr. Clynes said: “Would you allow me to say how delighted all of us will be to receive the best possible news of his Majesty’s recovery to health.” Cheers from all parts of the House greeted this utterance.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 529, 5 December 1928, Page 1
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242ON KING'S BEHALF Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 529, 5 December 1928, Page 1
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