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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1936.
THE NEW KING TO HIS
PARLIAMENT
BRIEF AND SIMPLE MESSAGE
Three Remarkable Tributes
progress.
London Jan. 26.
solved to follow in the way He has set before Me
MORE AIR CLUBS Anzora in the
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London, Jan. 26.
With an increase of 400 aero-
THREE POINTS OF VIEW Three remarkable tributes were pald to the late King. each deal-planes on the official Register, last ing with a different aspect His Majestys character and sec-
civil dying activity in vices and all were delivered with Great Britain showed a greater
year's
sincere feeling. Mr. Baldwin's Towth than that of any preced-
ing year and
was that 'ot a Statesman.
some
The Prime Minister appeared. at the Bar of the Commons on Tues-Parliamentarian. He dwelt on the Privately-owned machines in- day with a paper in his hand. strictly Constitutional line follow-Į creased during the year from 549 The crowded House was sombre de by King George in, the many to 594, but this figure does not and subdued. Members wore political and Industrial crises of include a large number of "Fly- black clothes, in marked contrast his reign" Mr. Attice, lender of ing Ficas" (low-powered ma- with their normal variegated sult- the Labour Opposition, "praised "His chines) made by their owners and ings, and a hush of deep sllence Majesty as a democrat and social not yet on the Register: and fixed attention hung over the reformer, and Sir Archibalasin-
The considerable increase. in assembly, usually so restless and clair; speaking for tile Liberals, the number of private machines talkative, even when debate is 'n dealt with King George as the is the more, remarkable in view Father of the Nation in words of the lass favourable conditions It was an occasion rare in Par- warm with the fealty of a High-in Great Britain than in Hamentary history. For a Mess-land Chieftain to his superior
other countries. It by no means age was about to be read from a lord.
represents the full measure of the. new King informing the Com The Address to King Edward increasing popularity of the aero- mons of his Accession; and the may be presented by the Party plane. Last year the number of Commons were to reply by adop-leaders or by the whole. House aeroplanes for air taxi and school. ting an Address of condolence headed by the Speaker. In the work increased from 302 to 491, and loyalty. Only twice has the ease of the Message of Condolence and there has been a big increase scene been witnessed tri the pre-to Queen Mary, six representative in the business done by firms sent Chamber since the Commons Members of the House who are which let machines out to pilot- { '. ärst met in it in 1853-eighty- not office holders in the Govern- hirers who prefer this method to four years ago, The last time ment were appointed to wait owning their own craft. was in May. 1910. when Mr. upon Her Majesty. These are: Asquith, 25 Prime Minister. Sir Francis Ackland, Viscountess Brought a similar Message from
Astor, Mr. James Brown, Lord King George V. On the first Hugh Cecil, Sir William Jenkins, occasion. In January: 1901. the Mr. Lambert, and Earl Winterton. Message was from King Edward
King Edward VIL, as Prince of VII and the Prime Minister was Wales, was a familiar figure 1
THE "AIR SCOOTERS." Mr. Balfour
the Royal seat above the clock in
Returns from · twenty-seven of the House of Commons on occa-
the subsided Aying clubs show sions of full-dress debates. Hils
much increased activity. The Fast visit wa when when he heard Sir Samuel without counting alx clube not yet on December 20, aggregate membership is 7.738, Hoare's historic speech on his really reported. Two years ago the agnation of the office of Foreign total was 4,800. Of the club mem- Secretary. His Majesty will not
bers actually flying there are 4,271, the House of Combions in
an increase of 100 in the year, In session again. An ancient law of the Constitution forbids the King aidised clubs, and also a great addition, there are several unsub- from restraining the Commons in the free expression of opinion by amount of flying on "flying fleas," his presence in the House; and air scooters," as the very low- despite the absolute change which powered machines are called.. has taken place in the relations between Crown and Parliament, it is still observed by the Sovereiga
own
"A Message from the King." said the Prime Minister, in a loud voice, holding up the paper to 'catch the Speaker's eye, and add ing, "signed with His Majesty's hand. The Speaker said, "Wh the right hon. gentleman! please bring" it to the table?* Thereupon Mr. Baldwin came o the, foor, howing three times, and handed the Message to the Speaker; and the Speaker, stand ing on the dals of the Chair, read
to the House. Its terms brief and simple:
are
I am well assured that the
House of Commons deeply mourns the death of My beloved Father. He devotea H's life to the service of Els people and to the uphold- ing of Constitutional Government. He was eser actuated by His pro- found, sense of duty. I am re-
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WHEN PARLIAMENT OPEN Queen Victoria never saw the Commons in the Chamber, not even from behind the grile of the Ladies' Galety, during the sixty- one years of her reign. Nor was King George seen in the Royal seat during his twenty-six years. Only when King Edward opens Parliament will he see the. Com- mons, as they crowd at the Bar cf the House of Lords to hear the Speech from the Throne."
In the House of Lords similar Resolutions were adopted on the motion of Lord Halifax, Leader of the House, secondea by Lord Snell. Leader of the Opposition, and supported by Lord Mottistone and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
'The most notable change which the death of King George has made
1. the
relations between Sovereign and Parliament 18 to be seen in the House Lords. The throne in the Cham-
The number of Club-owned Beroplanes increased from 108 to 144, and the number used by busi- ness firms from thirty-three to kixty-nine."
In the twenty-seven subsidised
clubs 559 plota qualified for the "A" certificate, and 133 for the commercial pilot's "B" licence. The latter figure is evidence of the great increase in air line operations, for in 1934 only nity commercial licences were gained In these clubs.
The total fiying time in the clugs referred to was 39,098 hours; the number of flights 91,844, an in-. crease over the previous year by about 15,000.
Towards the end of last year some of the flying schools in whien candidates for the expanding. Alr Force are given initial training were opened, this accounting for. much of the increase in the num ber of school machines on the re gister.
CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT.
Return relating to air line opera tions are not yet complete, but when the figures are compiled they will reveal something like 20 per cent. increase. At Heston Aero- drome, for example, 17,803 pas ber is the "Throne of England" sengers went in or out on regular in the material sense, distinct from the Throne that is spoken of in 1934. Jersey Airways carried air lines, as compared with 14,000 Constitutionally or in the historic 8,668 passengers between London sense. For here the King sits and Jersey during the year. The enthroned in his Imperial robes and-crowned, when he meets the three Estates of the Realm-the gers. Lords spiritual and temporal and the Common-st the opening of Parliament, Hitherto the Throne has had two Chairs of State, one for the King and the other for the Queen Consort. It has only one Chair now. The new King has no Consort.
tracto shown by a total of 6,528 passen
the Isle of Wight is
Some of the club records are in teresting as showing the enormous amount of work done per machine. Brooklands, 'for example, with. seven aeroplanes, made up · 82 aggregate of no fewer than 4,525 flying hours, or 646 hours per ma- chine.
« THE SECOND CHAIR
It is impossible to predict the Edward VII. on his Accession effect of the new vogue in low-po- had a second Chair placed on wered, cheaper aeroplanes, but the Throne for Queen Alexandra, apparently it, will be considerable. and at the opening of FIs These machines are now being Majesty's first Parliament, on flown on long journeys. A B.A,G Febrary 14, 1901, a Queen Consort Super Drone" Otted with an 18 sat with the King on the Throneh.p. engine, few to Paris and back of England for the first time in his the other day An Aeronca tory. Until then it was the cu 40 hp engine is setting out for tom for the Queen Consort to a night to the Ospe. precede the King to Westminister The prices of light aeroplanes" and sit during the ceremony of range from about £1,250 for jopening Parliament on a low
Chair at the foot of the Throne three-seaters down to £175 for a The second Chair of State pro-
two seater type of comparatively vided by King Edward VIL was an ow power; but there is a wide field exact replica of the old in design of choice at different prices. The be built for and ornamentation, but it was
made an inch and a halt lower, less the
In this slight difference in height
between between the two Chaim
Was the Constitutional point ex-
pressed that while His Majesty Ar
death of
hed his Consort by his 1.de: ad this. Chair was the
the Throne she was not his cu
equal in the
not share in the 30
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