Culminating in the broadcast by his Majesty the King, speaking from Winnipeg, the "Round-the-Empire" programme that is to be the premier event of the Empire Day programmes in the Transmissions from Daventry, Will be, in the words of Major Gladstone Murray, General Manager of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a programme of simplicity and spontaneous family greeting, creating, by means of greetings from average citizens in all parts of the Empire, the family atmosphere "that makes binding the bonds of this great experiment in human relations, the British Commonwealth."
Among the other programmes marking Empire Day for Daventry listeners are a children's ceremony at Guildhall, London, and the annual service of commemoration of British Columbia's Church in London, St.
Mary Woolnoth, Lombard Street. The address at this service will be given by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The children's ceremony in Guildhall—an assembly of children attending elementary schools in the City of London—will be attended in State by the Lord Mayor, Sir Frank Bowater, the Sheriffs, and members of the Corporation of the City. Li: teners will hear the Lord Mayor's address of welcome, and messages of loyalty to the King and Queen and of friendship to the school-children of the Empire, proposed and seconded by the children themselves. The address and messages will be linked by the singing of patriotic songs and hymns.
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