THE CORONATION.
NO INVITATIONS FOR MEMBERS. CONTINGENT .0 BE SENT. v By Telegraph — Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. ; Interviewed to-night, Sir Joseph ■ said it was absurd for anyone , ; ;to suggest that the. Government was keeping; anything back concerning the invitations to the Coronation. No invitation of any kind had beeji received by the Government for members of the Legislature to attend the ceremony. If it had been, members of Parliament would have been communicated with at once. Sir Joseph Ward said it was intended to send a contingent of troops from New Zealand, but he had strongly urged that, in view of the fact that Coronation celebrations of a similar character would be carried out in this Dominion, a body of Imperial troops might be sent here.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10144, 21 January 1911, Page 5
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127THE CORONATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10144, 21 January 1911, Page 5
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