AUSTRALIAN NEWS
(United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright 1 JAPANESE NAVAL VISIT. (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) FREMANTLE, June 19. Admiral Kobayshi, of the Japanese Training Squadron visiting Australia, said sons of daughters of Japanese are much taller than their parents. Schoolchildren in the past five or six years have discarded the Japanese kimono for tho European dress, giving their arms and legs more freedom and now sat upon chairs to eat or read, instead of the old-time custom of squatting on mats. • Prince Takamatsu, brother of the Emperor, accompanying the fleet, is twenty-six. He expressed the hope that, cordial relations between Japan and Australia always would continue. INVITATION TO AVIATORS. GISBORNE, June 19. Mayor Coleman to-day accepted a suggestion from the Eotarians that Captain Ivingsford Smith and party be invited to visit Gisborne in the course of"their Dominion tour. It was.pointed out that a landing-ground was available and the citizens were anxious to entertain tho aviators. ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1928, Page 3
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