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THE
CORONATION
OF THEIR MAJESTIES
KING GEORGE VI QUEEN ELIZABETH OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PROGRAMMAJO
N Edition of the Official Souvenir Programme of the A Coronation has been produced for His Majesty's subjects overseas. It consists of thirty two pages of text and illustra tion, and a cover bearing the Royal Coat-of-Arms printed in full colours and gold.
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SPECIAL THOTOGRAPHS OP THEIR MAJESTIES KING GEORGE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH
· PHOTOGRAPHS OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARY THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH THE PRINCESS MARGARET
AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY
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A CORONATION ODE
BY JOHN MAGEFIELD, POET LAUREATE
THE KING'S MAJESTY
FIGNIFICANCE OF TEE" CORONATION TO TER EMPIRE BY JOHN DRINKWATER ...
DESCRIPTION OF THE ' CORONATION PROCESSION
A PICTORIAL MAP OF THE ROUTE OF THE PROCESSION
UY XIA
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SERVICE GRACE THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF
CANTERBURY THE CORONATION SERVICE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY AN EXPLANATION OF THE CORONATION CEREMONIAL WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY BIR GERALD WOLLASTON, GÄRTEN, PRINCIPAL. KING OF ARMS A GENEALOGICAL TABLE SHOWING THE DESCENT-OF THE CROWN
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Hong Kong. A new angle of approach to traffic
definitely desirable.
More-Milk
offences is
Most people have a horror of They often develop
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Notice To Contributors.
a distaste for a food which they All communications intended for are told is good for their health. of the week's report publication should be addressed to Last
Committee disclosed the Editor, and be accompanied by Nutrition
that the con- Name and Address, two facts; one, the Writer's not necessarily for insertion but sumption of milk in Britain was
smaller than before the as a guarantee of good faith.
two, that the plan of providing a cheap or free glass of milk every day for every school, child has been considerably handicap- that milk has ped by the fact
many a little
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OUR TRAFFIC OVERLORDS
or no appeal to
juvenile palate. ⠀
" war;
It may be just a psychological reaction and not the result of an acquired or inherited distaste Hong Kong might do well to for milk. Curing malnutrition consider the borrowing of an by reforming the diet of the peo- idea on traffic problems from ple is a lengthy process, which London, where, in a desperate may however be hastened by the in essential effort to reduce the appalling toll inclusion of a commodity like of death and injury on the roads, milk which is rich
in the authorities have instructed vitamins.
In a report on nutrition the police to adopt a more effec-
Ceylon, the Director of Medical tive policy.
In a word, they are to cease and Sanitary Services pointed "chivvying" motorists for harm-out that the prejudice in Ceylon less technical offences and con-against cow's milk was due to belief fostered centrate upon the problem of the erroneous
that it is not a suitable article of really dangerous driving.
diet during illness. The popu So that they may learn to
larity of dried milk is also en- distinguish authentic road hanced by the belief (in many hogs" from plain ordinary peo-
a.
that
ple, the traffic police in the instances well-grounded) metropolitan area have been or- there is no guarantee for the purity of fresh milk. This, to- dered
attend
special to
gether with the high price and "school" under the temporary “headmastership” of the Earl of an insufficient appreciation of its nutritive value, has stood in the Cottonham, motor expert and way of widespread adoption of author. Their standard of driy-milk as a regular article of diet. ing will be improved and their The health of a nation cannot be knowledge of what constitutes improved in a day; but in any actual carelessness and reckless-planned campaign for better
ness extended.
The experiment will be tried nutrition milk will always prove first in a London police division an invaluable ally. where motorists guilty of mere
technical faults will be tactfully Least Resistance
left alone.”
enable This will
it was discloseu on Saturday about 40 policemen to be added by an education official attached London County Council to the force that will henceforth to the keep their eyes out for the chief that when he first took up his cause of accident bad and duties he discovered that there thoughtless driving by incom- was a ruling that “no child was Should allowed to write on the top line petents and “show-offs. the plan be a success and the of an exercise-book." He then division in which it is applied worked the matter out and found — it will be that all those unused lines in all will be kept secret extended all over the country. the schools concerned cost the Meanwhile, mere technical of-council £300 a year. It would fenders, who are legion in num- sound, therefore, as though the ber, are to be "dealt with" in a matter has now been remedied. more considerate manner. In-with the result that manufac stead of receiving a summons in turers of exercise-books must be it is the first instance they will be $300 a year worse off, for told, firmly but courteously, not difficult to save money by such to do it again. Britain's stand-adjustments without duly hit- ing army, of "obstructionists," ting somebody at the other side for example, (for motorists are of the transaction.
will But the awful example of the the same all over the world), find a polite note left in their un-L.C.C. in the matter of exercise- attended cars appealing to them books may well serve
of how the old-time to park on future occasions in a minder garage or at a recognised park- maxim "Wilful waste brings woeful want" must be abundant- ing place.
as a re-
It is remarkable to think that ly illustrated in the case of other after years of persecution and writing material. Think how-
notepaper people with repression
must
traffic overlords are much
beginning to see the wia- sprawling hand-writing dom of substituting the soft consume in comparison with glove for the mailed fist. those who express themselves in Indiscriminate severity (and un-a close and crabbed fist. Think, que leniency in actual Court too, of what the rule that all proceedings) has proved so dis-writing for the press shall be on mal a flasco, in that it distracted one side of a sheet only must the attention of too many police mean in the way of paper con- from the criminal antics of too sumption; the single, unused line must many potential “killers,” that in L.C.C. exercise-books
as authority was bound to realise have meant a trifling loss the situation sooner or later. compared with this country's The only pity is that the awaken-general acreage of sheets blank ing did not come sooner than so on one side. But it is to be hoped that no economy campaign late.
The implied criticism of police will ever enforce the two-sided methods is equally strong no system: it might save money but matter whether it be London or it would certainly add to trouble.
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