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AUSTRALIAN SHIP OF WAR ARRIVAL OF THE PERTH (Reed. Aug. 5, 12.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 4. 11.M.A.5. Perth, whose personnel will participate in Australia Day .at the World’s Fair on August 11, passed quarantine at 6.15 a.rn. The vessel saluted the Statue of Liberty and was saluted by the guns of Governor's Island. The Perth docked at 7.40 a.m. The Australian Commissioner, Mr. MacGregor, welcomed the cruiser on behalf of Australia, being followed by a delegation of United States naval and military forces headed by Commander Hughes, who was commanding the gunboat Pa-nay when it was bombed by the Japanese .in December of 1937.
Dozens of Americans, journalists and photographers, flocked to the ship, and Captain Farncomb, Commander Hughes and Mr. MacGregor spent nearly half-an-hour posing and being interviewed.
Captain Farncomb said it was the first trip to New York for most of those aboard. Everyone was enjoying the trip very much. “We have been commissioned only about five weeks, so we are just shaking down,” he added.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20009, 7 August 1939, Page 7
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