SYDNEY CELEBRATION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 86, 21 January 1938, Page 5

SYDNEY CELEBRATION.

CITY IN/ FESTIVE GARB.

FLOODLIGHTING OF THE BRIDGE.

(United Press Association — Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Visitors from all parts of the world are gathering in Sydney for the anniversary celebrations and the Einpiie Games. Hotel accommodation is rapidly filling, and fancy prices are being paid for seats and windows along the route of the pageant “The march to Nationhood,’’ next Wednesday. Five miles of city streets have been gaily decorated with distinctive blocks of colours, namely red and white, blue and white and tricolour. Ilagstatrs have been erected every fifty yards. Tall city buildings have been draped and dressed in rich colourings and grouped bunting crests. A feature of the illuminations will be the harbour bridge, which, by means of 7,000,000 candlepower, floodlighting will resemble the rising sun and w.ll be a spectacle of indescribable beauty. All the statues and most of the City Parks and gardens will be a blaze of colour at night-time. Athletes from all parts of the Empire, homed in villages in the showground, are at present fully occupied in tramin<r for the Empire Gaines. They have settled down comfortably. Their only complaint is against the protracted spell of humid heat,. wTiicii began six weeks ago.