The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1914. AUSTRALASIANS ABROAD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 61, 3 July 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1914. AUSTRALASIANS ABROAD.

On Empire Day there was quite a notable gathering of former residents of Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania, now located in California. They met at the Yosemite Hall in •San Francisco’s business centre, and observed thd occasion with a social reunion. The function was attended by many prominent former colonials, and all the officials of the Australasian ' Club of San Francisco, under whose auspices the celebration was held, The spacious hall was gaily decorated with the various flags of the Australian States, New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands under British rule, United States, and the Californian beai flag. The Australian Commonwealth flag predominated, and the decorations formed the largest array of Antipo- 1 dean flags ever seen on the 1 aciflo coast. Several scores of small Commonwealth flags, presented to the Columbia Park boys, of San I rancisco, when they departed from Sydney ! for home recently, were kindly loaned I for the Empire Day celebration, amt the favors worn by the officials consisted of pretty tricolor rosettes, from which depended gold miniatures of I the map of Australia. Exhibitions ' of the latest society dances wore givI on by talented members of the com- | puny, proving conclusively that the ! “exiled” Australasian ladies are equal. 1 ly as adept ns their American sisters are exponents of the freak Yankee ! dance. Such gatherings indicate that ' the old homes in the Southern Seas are not likely to he forgotten.