Australians All Ask to See Menin Picture
Do Not Wish It Sent Direct to Canberra MANY REQUESTS (United x .A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Wed. Captain Will Longstaff has received numerous letters from Australia asking that his Menin Gate picture be shown at Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Bendigo, Ballarat, Sydney and Brisbane, instead of going direct to Canberra. The City Council of Ballarat, which is Captain Longstaff's birthplace, earnestly requested that it be shown there. Captain Longstaff told the Australian Press Association that the picture, which is mow in Glasgow, would probably be going to Australia in three weeks. He added: “I can do nothing in regard to the requests. It is the Commonwealth* Government’s property.” The Menin Gate picture, which was presented to the Commonwealth and which will be hung at Canberra, shows the memorial gate, with the ghosts of the armies about it.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 350, 10 May 1928, Page 9
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149Australians All Ask to See Menin Picture Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 350, 10 May 1928, Page 9
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