SPENDING MILLIONS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 415, 23 April 1937, Page 2

SPENDING MILLIONS.

WORLD’S VISITORS TO CORONATION. Chocolate in Coronets. London, April 14. The Time s estimates 'that Coromation visitors from all countries to th? number of 227,000 will spend £27,300,000 in services and goods. This figure includes the follow- i :ng:—Australians, 20,000, spending £7,000,000; New Zealanders, 5000, £1,750,000; Canadians, 20,000, £3,000,000; South Africans, 15,000, £4,500,000; from India, 15.000, £3,900,000; from <the colonies, 7000, £1,225,-

000; from <the Irish Fre-3 State, 12,000, Americans, 22,500, £1,687.,000; Europeans, 100,000, £3,000,000. It is expected 'that Canadians will stay, on the average, for five ’Weeks, and Australians and South Africans for three, months. Functions include garden parties at ducial estates, visits to Eton College, the Royal stud at Newmarket, Buckingham Palace mews, the Duchy of Cornwall estates and Parliament, a special recital in Westminster Abbey on the new organ built by Empire contributions /and an Empire service at St. Paul’s. Papal Mission, The Papal mission for the Coronation has been chosen. The envoy will be Monsignor Giuseppe Pizzardo, Archbishop of Nicea and Undersecretary of S'a'.e to the Holy See. ; He will be accompanied by Monsignor I Williiami Godfrey, rector of the Engi lish College in Rome; Signor Guilio Pacelli, member of the Noble Guard

and brother of Cardinal Pacelli. The mission will arrive on May 7, and stay at Forbes House, the town residence of Lord Granard. On May 10 it will attend a reception given by the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace. At the Coronation it ivlll occupy a special loggia outside the Abbey. Except where coronets are carried by pages in that procession, every peer and peeress entering Westminster Abbey on Coronation Day will dangle his or her coronet upside down from a finger by a special loop. Peeresses desirous of sustaining themselves with chocolate during the long wait will conceal it in their inverted coronets, which at the last Coronation were used as sandwich holders.