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VISIT TO WORLD'S FAIR. WARM WELCOME EXTENDED. Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) NEW YORK. August 4. H.M.A.S. Perth. whose personnel will participate in Australia Day at the World’s Fair on August 11. passed Quarantine Island at 6.5 a.m. The vessel saluted the Statue of Liberty and was saluted by Governor's Island guns. 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 representatives, headed by Commander Hughes, who was in command of the gunboat Panay when it was bombed by lhe Japanese in December. 1937. Dozens of Americans, including 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 and everyone was enjoying the trip very much. He added: "We have been commissioned only about five weeks so we are just shaking down.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1939, Page 7
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