CROWD AWAITS DUKE

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21285, 3 October 1934, Page 11

CROWD AWAITS DUKE

[.MANY VISITORS TO PERTH | AND FREMANTLE ] MK MALCOLM MACDONALD ARRIVED ,V5IUil ltE;i AS-'jClil 'CN~ I'i f.-.E. ; i.lt ■jXLKaii.U'ii tuL'-yr.i'jiJj.) (.Received October 2, 11.30 p.m.; j FREMANTLE, October 2. j There is a tremendous influx of ] visitors here and in Perth awaiting | the arrival of Prince Henry. Citi- ; -".ens had their first piece of excite-' j ment to-day with the arrival of the 'Grenadier Guards Eand aboard the j liner Otranto from London. They were given a rousing welcome by ; the bandsmen of the visiting Australian cruisers Canberra and Australia, and by 300 local bandsmen. Hir Alan Anderson, chairman of ! the Orient Company, Mr Malcolm ; Mac Donald. M.P. (Under-Secretary ■for the Dominions), and Miss Sheila 1 Mac Donald. his youngest sister, also arrived by (he Otranto. Mr Mac Donald said (he resump- ' tion of migration could and would , not be entertained unless (ho D<<uninions agreed that it would licit) ,' (hern. : lie said it was a mistaken belief : that Britain desires to dump her unemployed in Australia. Mr Mac Donald and his sister wilr be the guests of the Melbourne Centenary Council. They will remain : two months in Australia, and will see ns much of the coun'ry as pos- [ sih'fo. j Sir Alan Anderson said thai j Prince Henry would launch the new j Orient liner by wireless from TJrlsi bane on December 7.

Si SSKX N KAKS A I ST K A 1.1.N 11.M.5. SUSSEX. At S <.•;». Octwl.>«.*» 1. H.M.S. Sussex is less than tiOii miles from FiTiu:;nile, mid, as sin: i.well within sclk'iiiile, the eruiser'.sneed lias been reduced to 12 knot;-. The Duke of (J loueester is fit. and keenly inlercsted and enthusin'-t i<' fCitiocminii his tour