THE WEATHER.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 432, 13 May 1937, Page 4

THE WEATHER.

To-day’s Forecast. CLOUDY AND MILD. j j Press Association—Copyright. Wllington, May 13. I An anti-cyclone of 1 considerable inj tensity now lies off the east coast of the Dominion, a shallow depression with a considerable southward exte'ni sion is approaching slowly across the north Tasman Sea. The forecast is for slight to modelrate, but freshening north-east to northerly winds, the weather becoming cloudy to overcast and rain gradually developing. mild. Seas, slight to moderate, but |ater rising.

I I the crowning, Mr Paterson added. One by one' representatives of the people knelt to swear fealty to the King 1 The welfare of the Empire and the race depended not merely upon the King but on the people as a whole and he appealed to the boys and girls to do their part and -to say with the King, “I consecrate myself to my task. ’ A Great Empire.” “In common wi.h the cities and towns of the Empire we are assembled to acclaim the Coronation of our King*—His Majesty King George VI,” said Mr. Polson. “A famous American statesman -a century ago,” he •jon- inued, “described the Empire as • one ‘whose warning drum beats, folI towing the sun and keeping company I with the hours, encircles the earth

I wifth. thio continuous and unbroken is’ rain of the martial airs of EngI land.’ ’’ To_day a greater, wiser and still more stable nation faced the world with equal strength and tranquilly, Mr. Polson stated. The British people had faced war and sacrifice, trial nd misfortune, mi sunders andings within and without, but under me British flag and within the Bri* ish constitution the people of the Empire !stood four_squ'are to-day in an unbrok- • u world-wide circle, crowning >lheir I joint King. j “What a spectacle for the nation?!” ; Mr. Polson went on. “Here we are, ! individual peoples, scattered across ; the seas, s ill encircling the earth ! with continuous and unbroken strain, I demanding equal liberties and | privileges, and yet still held toge her by ihe ties of kinship and above all ■our loyalty to one common King.” Conception of Kingship. : The conception of Kingship had ; • hanged wi h the nation’s growth. I The King was no longer an autocrai tic but a democratic King, yet. he I traced his line back through the Hanlovers, Stuarts, Tudors anr the Houses J of York and Daneaster to ihe Planta- • ganets before democracy was. The BriI tish Queen to-day was the daugh- er •. of a great Scottish house and sat. be- • side the King on the most democra- ■ | tic throne the world had ever seen | and New Zealanders, in the furthest i of the far.flung dominions, joined with ■ the others in expressing loyalty. | The ceremony of the crowning of i *<he King was filled with tradition and • symbolism—symbolic pageantry and . j ritual possessing their appeal. They | preserved the customs of the ancest- ' ors of rhe British race and they in_ i tensifiedi the national pride in lineage and rac?. The King would sit in a Coronation chair designed in 1300 to hold the stone (stone of Scone), an □aken chair only once removed from Wes' minster in 607 years for Oliver Cromwell’s installation. The King would be crowned with a replica of Edward the Confessor’s crown which was destroyed during the Commonwealth. He would be anointed from '.he 1400 year’s old Eagle Ampulla (according .to ancient legend, received by St. Thomas of Canterbury from the Virgin Mary herself) with the 1000 years old anointing spoon. Then I he would be girded with the sword i of Sta e, made for James I. Commonwealth of Nations. j “Our King,” said Mr. Polson, “is i the central figure of s ix nations who | h ive given themselves and owe allej glance to him. He stands for an agelong tradition and an ageless nation. I Now the world sees a spectacle of ;that creation, undisturbed by passing iepisodes or human errors, proclaiming its unity and streng h. Nothing 'more striking could occur; it. advertises to the world th'ail .(he Common. ! wealth of British Nations is solid, j that a grea united force for peace 'exists and that speakin? a common ' tongue whose influence is used for j breaking down barriers between nations by trade, by mu ual understand [lng and by respecting the rights of i r t hers.” ; "I am sure,” Mr. Polson concluded, | His Majesty’s great wish to-day. iis to preserve that relationship. Ours | is that his reign may be peaceful and full of progress and ithat he may long I live to reign over us.” j At the conclusion of the ceremony sheers were given for the King and yQueen and the Royal princesses.