AUSTRALIA DAY
CELEBRATION AT WORLD FAIR. ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. ! (Received This Day. 1.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 11. I Over 75.000 visitors to the World’s Fair joined 400 members of the Australian Colony and United States and | Australian officials in celebrating Aus- ' tralia Day. A full programme began lat 11 a.m. with official receptions by the President of the Fair, Mr. Grover Whalen, and the Mayor. Mr. Le Guardia and concluded at 10.30 p.m. with a nation-wide broadcast from Australia in which the Commonwealth Premier. Mr. R. G. Menzies, participated. The official party included Mr and Mrs. MacGregor, the British Consul-General. Mr. Godfrey Haggard. Sir Hubert Wilkins and Captain Farj comb, of the cruiser H.M.S. Perth. New York was sweltering in a heat wave, and Mr. MacGregor, who was a distinctive figure in white ducks and a topee, raised a laugh when he concluded his references to America’s I influences upon Australia with: "We i hope the Davis Cup will bo America’s i next gift to Australia."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1939, Page 8
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