CELEBRATIONS IN SYDNEY

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22307, 22 January 1938, Page 13

CELEBRATIONS IN SYDNEY

CITY GAILY DECORATED FOR CEREMONIES SYDNEY, January 20. Visitors from all parts of the world are gathering at Sydney for the anniversary celebrations and Empire Games. Hotel accommodation is rapidly filling up and fancy prices are being paid for seats and windows along the route of next Wednesday's pageant "March to Nationhood." Five miles of city streets have been gaily decorated, with distinctive block colours of red, white, and blue and white tricolour flagstaffs have been erected every 50 yards. Tall city buildings are draped and dressed in rich colourings and grouped bunting crests. A feature of the illuminations will be the harbour bridge, which, by means of 17,000,000 candlepower floodlighting, will resemble the rising sun and will be a spectacle of indescribable beauty. All 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 in houses and villages at the show ground have settled down comfortably. Their only complaint is against the protracted spell of humid heat which began six weeks ago. An invitation has been sent 'to Jock McAvoy, cruiser-weight champion of the British Empire, to visit Australia to fight Ambrose Palmer on McAvoy's terms.