KING‘S CORONATION.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19884, 13 May 1936, Page 9

KING‘S CORONATION.

810 BUSINESS BOOM. FACTORXES EXPECT RECORD. LONDON, April 22. Millions of pounds of extra business, spread over a variety of trades, will be a direct result of the Coronation celebrations next year, writes a rstecial correspondent of the Daily elegrsph. The Potteries, the Birmingham metsl tnde, and the makers of'flags, hunting, and streamers in Lancashire and Yorkshire are already busy with preparations. They have the lesson of the Jubilee celebrations fresh in their minds, and anticipate a record demand for decorating materials and souvenirs, A ‘ > A

It is estimated that at least 7,000,000 Coronation mugs and beakers will be supplied by the Potteries for distribution to school-children. A director of the Royal Doulton Works at Hanley, Stafiordshire, stated yesterday that the value of the Coronation pottog. alone would exceed £500,000.

The Pottery Federation has offered two prizes of £25 each for the best design and the best shape for a standard Coronation mug suitable for schools. The mugs will probably sell for about 6d gach. _ .. ‘ ‘

Famous makers of high-class pottery are preparing designs for limit‘d editions of special collectors“ pieces to be sold at prices between 103 6d and 3 or 4 guineas. Moulds from which these pieces are made will be destroyed after a fixed number of copies have been taken. Start in Autumn. Much preparatory work, not only in the selection of designs, but also in the testing of colours, has yet to be done before the first Coronation pottery is produced. Production, however, will begin in real earnest in the autumn. Makers of flags, streamers and bunting are receiving hundreds of inquiriexdfrom this country and the Empire. 0 ers for cloth have already been placed on the Manchester Royal Exchange. Some of the larger Manchester textile houses are preparing designs for souvenir printed handkerchiefs. Some anxiety is felt in the decorative materials trade lest goods should be imported from abroad. Union Jacks made in Germany, medals made in Czechoalozakia and flags and streamers from Japan were dumped in this country for the Jubilee. A Manchester maker of flags said yesterday that Germany had begun to make Union Jacks, and a large Colonial order had already been placed ere. ‘