VIEW OF CORONATION

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 391, 24 March 1937, Page 5

VIEW OF CORONATION

Dominion Visitors Privileged. London, March 14. Londoners who cannot afford to pay fancy prices for a seat to view the Coronation will have to stand on boxes if they hope to see anything of the procession. Dominion visitors are to have preference in the allocation of the Government grandstand accommodation along the line of route. Londoners may not like it, but the chances are that they will have to put up with it.

While hundreds of thousands of the general public will struggle in the streets of the Metropolis for a glimpse of the Coronation, 85,000 privileged spectators will view the spectacle in comparative comfort from the Government grandstands, situated in Hyde Park, on Constitution Hill, The Mall, and Parliament Square. No individual applications for seats will be considered, although the authorities have been inundated with applications.

Many of the seats will go to overseas visitors, some are allocated to members of Parliament, others to the Civil Service and Diplomatic Corps. Any that may be left will be made available to different organisations. So far no price has been fixed for these seats.