HEAVY PROGRAMME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1939, Page 5

HEAVY PROGRAMME

ARRANGED FOR THE KING & QUEEN JOURNEY OF ELEVEN THOUSAND MILES. THROUGH INFINITELY VARIED SCENES. (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) QUEBEC, May 16. . “Their Majesties are facing a programme so crowded that a Canadian described it as barbarous in its demands on their strength,” says the Australian Associated Press representative. During twenty-eight days, their Majesties will travel 11,000 miles, every minute planned with stopwatch precision. Ceremonies in the smaller centres will be cut to a minimum, owing both to limitations of time and to- their Majesties’ expressed desire to see and meet the Canadian people. The latter are eagerly awaiting them along the line that begins on the majestic bluff over Wolfe’s Cove and trails its flag-draped length for 3000 miles to the Pacific Coast. Following this path and returning by one further north, their Majesties will visit fifty-two cities and towns. They will see a landscape of infinite variety—forested hills, the innumerable lakes of Quebec, thousands of miles of prairies, the towering wall of the Rockies, the fiords and islands of British Columbia, the great woods of New Brunswick, the red cliffs and shining sands of Prince Edward Island and the rockbound, coasts and salty tides of Nova Scotia. From the long-settled land of French Canada, where an ancient civilisation is preserved intact, they will touch the frontiers of a new country and observe new traditions being built. In the North-West, the reception awaiting their Majesties is illustrated by the spirit of school children in drought-ridden Saskatchewan, who, with their teachers’ aid, have been saving their pennies for months so that they can travel to Regina to see their King and Queen.

LIMIT ON INVITATIONS

EMBASSY GARDEN PARTY IN WASHINGTON. NEARLY 1400 DAUGHTERS. EXCLUDED. (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 16. Reports continue of disappointment over invitations to the Royal Garden Party at the British Embassy. It is stated that no names will be added to the list, despite scores of requests received daily. Lady Lindsay expressed particular regret that she was unable to include the daughters of the 1.300 to 1400 expected guests.