ROYAL TOUR.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19176, 6 December 1927, Page 9

ROYAL TOUR.

FILM SHOWN IN LONDON.

(h (mi—raist associatiok— copimoect.) IttWiUIAJt AND V.Z. CABL* ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON, December 4. A sereu-reel film of the Australian nd New Zealand tour of the Duke and Dueheis of York was shown for the fr»t time at the Hitchen benefit for Earl Haig'g ex-Servicemen's Fund.

The Earl of Cavan, chief of the staff the tour, in the happiest vein, retounting incidents in the film, declared •Ut it was almost impossible to describe the enthusiasm of the Dominions. %al visits did incalculable good. Britons were only able to realise the 'arm-hearted loyalty of Australians if they imagined that Royalties resided ® Australia, and were only visible in wndon once in a decade. Eycn then, necessary to multiply thrice the rtthmiasm which colder Britons would Replay to gain the slightest idea of warmth of tbe Australians' wel<o®f. He emphasised the complete ■Qecesa of the tour, stating that there no shadow for a singlo moment. ® Duke's staff, the ship's company, journalists accompanying the party «e a happy family. After the New Zealand section had shown, the Earl of Cavan drew aton to Wellington's stirring recepJ?®i added, "but vou have yet to *«®en Australia's." He recalled that , a the ship entered Sydney Harbour Bl y rock and stone seemed to be a °* people stretching for six or jwi miles in every direction. h i was the greatest gathering and the i i yonderfnl display of enthusiasm e ever seen