HISTORIC PAGEANTRY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 78, 24 December 1937, Page 12

HISTORIC PAGEANTRY

Australia's Celebration of 150th Anniversary IMPRESSIVE ASSEMBLAGE As the date for vcommencement of Australia's 150th anniversary celebrations in Sydney draws near, it is becoming clear that no member of the British Royal family will be an oflicial visitor. The Celebrations Organisation Committee, however, feels certain that the attractive plans it has made will not suffer from this absence, and will draw tens of thousands of tourists to Sydney anyway. The opening day, January 26, will be marked by a notable historical pageant through the city, evoking memories of 1788. The pageant will illustrate "Australia's March to Nationhood." Other events will be the National Eisteddfod, sports champion ships, surf and other carnivals, aerial pageants, a wcek of juvenile show and pageantry, and the Empire Games, in wliich 18 Empire countries will be represented. Other items nientioned arc a Chinese festival, a Venetian carnival, and a commercial and industrial pageant. On the more serious side of the celebrations are 22 conferences and exhibitions of a cultural, scientific and developmental nature. The major conferences will be:Empire Parliamentary Association, British Imperial Relations, Australia Law Convention, World Radio, International Women, National Council of Women, Empire Producers, Institution of Engineers, Red Cross, and Legacy Clubs. The Prime Minister, Mr J. A. Lyons, has informed the State Premier, Mr Bertram S. B. Stevens of New South Wales that France, the United Statea, the Netherlands, Japan, China, Russia, Germany, and Italy liave been invited to send warships to Australia for the celebrations. These ships will be in Sydney from January 26 to the middle of February. Surrounded lierself by a wealtli of liistoric associations, a former lightsliip, the Bramble, has been chosen for the leading role in the opening scene of the celebrations. When the first day's pageant begins, she will move to the centre of the .stage as Governor Phillip's tiny ship Supply. The Bramble is now being converted by shipwrights into a reproduction of thc veteran of the past.

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