King’S Birthday At Honiara
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Prom Our Own Correspondent THE King’s Birthday was celebrated this year in the British Solomon Islands on June 8.
This holiday is marked every year by a flag parade at the Rove Police Depot and Training School, a mile out of Honiara, held with all the ceremony possible in a small settlement.
A Guard of Honour of the Solomon Islands Armed Constabulary is mounted, The Resident Commissioner makes a short speech, the Union flag is hauled down and the Royal Standard broken out, and the assembled company (which in cludes most Honiara residents and all Government officials) sings God Save the King.
Against the Rove background of green lawn and foothills, the little ceremony is reasonably impressive, and the police Guard of Honour which is inspected by the Resident Commissioner, is always smartly turned out, the Superintendent of Police in full Colonial Police uniform, with white jacket, white helmet and sword, taking the parade.
Most sympathised-with member of the official party was the Judicial Commis sioner, who had to stand, in wig and gown, out in the full heat of the tropical sun for half an hour.