EMPIRE HOMAGE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 423, 3 May 1937, Page 5

EMPIRE HOMAGE

8.8. C. PROGRAMME SPOKESMEN ELECTED Sailor and Maori from New Zealand Press Association—Copyright. London, May 2. The Broadcasting Corporation has issued final details of the “Empire’s homage” broadcast on May 12. It will open with ia recorded extract from the Coronation service, followed by a recorded “flash” of the Royal procession. After that a septuagenarian Londoner, who remembers the Coronation of King George V and King Edward VII and Queen Victoria’s golden and diamon'd' jubilees, will be the first representative citizen to offer homage. Other Britons will include an Aberdeen woman, who will greet Queen Elizabeth from her native Scotland. The homage of Empire Prime Ministers will be interspersed with that of representatives of their Dominions, including a jackaroo (a cadet on a sheep station) speaking from Sydney, and a New Zealand sailor and'a Maori spokesman, using his native tongue, from Wellington. As Loudon calls each Dominion specially composed trumpet fanfares will be played. Rehearsals' will begin on May 3.