Coronation Seats , It would be interesting to compute the
number of desirable reforms which owe their origin to correspon- dence in The Times. . Among the latest and the most desirable will be, it is hoped, a revision of the Govern- ment's seating arrangements on the occasion of the Coronation as the result of letters from Mr. E. F. Hitchcock, Mr. A, G. Gardiner and others. It has been pointed out forcibly that the price of seats has risen to a figure out of most people's reach on the basis of scarcity value, but that the public authorities (princi- pally the Government itself) commanding some 60 per cent, of the potential seating accomnodation along the route could find room for an immense number of persons at a reasonable figure, and that the profits accruing from the sales of tickets might most appxo- priately be devoted to the King George V Memorial Fund, or the Jubilee Trust Fund, or both. Earl Stanhope, First Commissioner of Works, has at once taken the suggestion up, and it is understood that as a result of a conference between him and representatives of the chief ticket-selling agencies plans are to be worked out which will permit of a large increase of seats on the lines suggested by The Times' correspondents.
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