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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 5, 1937
COLONY'S CORONATION
PROGRAMME
FOUR DAYS' HOLIDAY FOR THE
WW SCHOOLS
The
full programme of Hong which they will take part. Their efforts Kong's Coronation celebrations, should provide a thoroughly entertain- ing programme for the public on the |briefly outlined, follows:
Friday afternoon of Coronation week. 1. The Coronation festivities will
His Excellency the Officer Adminis-- begin with a parade of Navy, Armytering the Government, who is now act- and Air Force on the race-course, ing as Chief Scout for the Colony, has to be present, Happy Valley at 8 a.m. on May 12. signified bis intention
and at the conclusion of the Rally will His Excellency the Officer Adminis-hand the "Prince of Wales' Banners" tering the Government will take the to the winning Troop and Company for salute.
the past year.
2. Church Services will com- mence at 11.00 a.m. There will be no official Church Service in the sense that no official invitations will be sent out nor seats reserved in the Cathedral for officials.
VARIED PROGRAMME
The programme of Displays is a vari- ed one. Music will be provided by the band of the Royal Ulster Rifles (by kind permission of Lieut. Colonel R. 3. A royal salute will be fired at M. Rodwell and Officers) under Band- noon and at 12.30 p.m. a meeting of master H. A. Hole, A.R.C.M., who is Coronation pro- the Legislative Council will be held arranging a special
gramme for the occasion: in the Council Chamber which the The Pageant which introduces the and the inception Judges and members of the Execu-Displays depicts.
of the Boy Scout and Girl tive Council will be invited to at-growth tend. The proceedings at this meet-Guide Movements in England and their expansion throughout the Empire and ing will be broadcast. A telegram many other Countries. Each section of congratulation will be forwarded of the Movement and each Colony or will be represented by а to His Majesty the King and the Country
tableau of from 20 to 50 Scouts and Loyal Address from the Community Guides in costume. The whole Pageant of Hong Kong will be signed by all will engage 400 performers. persons attending the meeting.
T
CHINESE CELEBRATIONS
There
by
The Pageant will be followed four simultaneous displays of National Sports and pastimes for Scotland. England, the United States of America, China. These will, in turn, 4. re will be a Chinese pro- followed by eight Displays of var cession during the forenoon and ions Scouting and Guiding activities afternoon of May 12th, 13th and ranging from Bridge Building to 14th. An enamelled dragon, a silver Chinese Boxing. dragon and other features will be displayed. The procession will pass Government House at 2.30 p.m. on May 12.
·YOUNGER MEMBERS
Later the younger members of the Movements will take a turn. Three hun- 5. Illuminations on
on May 12th dred Wolf Cubs and Brownies will oc- and 13th will commence at 8 p.m.cupy the arena for 15 minutes. They There will be nightflying displays of will be followed by 200 Scouts in a combined Physical Training Display. illuminated aeroplanes and search- The programme concludes with a mass- light displays. At 11 p.m. on May ed Rally in wheel formation of all the. 12th a bouquet of rockets will be performers. fired from H.M.S. Eagle and three destroyers. There will also be a display of fireworks staged by the Japanese community from 8 to 10 p.m.
The prices for admission are: Cover- ed Stand $1.00 Uncovered Stands 20 cents. Children half price. The pro- moters appeal for generous attendance and support, not only for financial con- siderations, but also to foster interest 6. On May 13th and 14th there in the Movements among all sections of
the Community. will be a Chinese night procession with the usual lanterns. A gauze dragon and a gold dragon will be displayed. The procession on May 13th..will be in time to pass Gov- ernment House at 9 p.m.
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
last
AUSTRALIA'S BIRTH
·RATE
"National Calamity"
7. School holidays will from May 12th until the 15th and Mr. W. M. Hughes, Australia's each schoolchild will be presented war-time Prime Minister, insiste with a medal. There will also be that the country's falling birth rate a display of the combined scouts at is a major national calamity, the Hong. Kong Football Club Ground, Happy Valley on 14th May tralia is "sliding into
Quoting figures to show that Aus- at 3 p.m.
an abyss,” both in regard to the birth rate and expected that the
the Coronation Service and His Ma-immigration, he declared that jesty's Speech will be relayed from country must adjust its conditions England. The local broadcast pro- 50 as to encourage an average fami- gramme will include choral singingly of four children.
8. It is
by the Hong Kong Singers and the Australia's birth rate at the end Philharmonic Society.
of 1985 was 16.78 per 1,000, com-
9. The George V Jubilee Trust pared with 25.5 in 1920. Just over programme of the Coronation will a year ago Mr. Hughes, who was be sold in the streets by boy scouts then Minister of Health, uttered during the celebrations.
"BOY SCOUTS AND GIRL GUIDES
the warning that if the present decrease continued, births and deaths would balance in 1988.
The Rally of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of the Colony at the Hong Kong Football Ground, Happy Valley, will take place from 3 p.m. till 5 p.m.
The Italian naval manoeuvres off the For the past two months the Sub-coast of Libya, between Tobruk and Committee dealing with this section of Tripoli, are the first of the kind since the Celebrations, under the guidance August, 1934.
of the Commissioners for the two Movements, has been busily engaged in
arranging the numerous details. The The famous statue of the Lion officers in charge of the various Scout Judah which stood in the Imperial Pa- Troops and Guide Companies have lace at Addis Ababa has been sent to been assiduously training- Scouts Rome and will be placed in the Street and Guides for the many activities in of the Triumphs.