CELEBRATIONS IN SYDNEY

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22245, 9 November 1937, Page 10

CELEBRATIONS IN SYDNEY

SESQUICENTENNIAL OF AUSTRALIA MR SAVAGE UNLIKELY TO BE PRESENT [From Our Parliamentary Reporter! WELLINGTON, November 8. It is extremely doubtful whether the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) will be able to attend the sesquicentennial celebrations of Australia in Sydney next year. It has already been stated in a press cablegram from Sydney that Mr Savage is among the guests invited to attend the official but in an interview this evening the .Prime Ministersaid that he did not think he would be able to make the trip. “We will be in the middle of a session of Parliament when the celebrations are being held in Sydney,” Mr Savage said, “and I do not see how I can possibly make arrangements to be absent from New Zealand. Legislation of considerable importance will be placed before the House of Representatives and my job will be to be present while that legislation is passed. “In my capacity as Prime Minister I should be delighted to attend the celebrations, which will be historic as far as Australia is concerned,” he said. “Even if I am unable to be present, however, we will see to it that New Zealand is adequately represented f uel that the greetings and congratulation? of the Dominion arc extended to the Commonwealth on the memorable occasion.”