QUEEN LEAVES ADELAIDE

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27309, 27 March 1954, Page 7

QUEEN LEAVES ADELAIDE

Last Stage Of Tour (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) ADELAIDE, Mar. 26. About 10,000 schoolchildren were among other uncounted thousands of persons who waved and cheered farewell to the Queen and the • Duke of Edinburgh on their way to Adelaide airport this morning to begin the last stage of their Australian tour. The now familiar cry of “Come back soon,” could be heard all along the route. Adelaide turned on one of its brightest mornings as the Royal couple began their flight almost across the continent to Kalgoorlie, the gold mining town in Western Australia, and then on to Perth, where they are due this evening.

The Royal yacht, Gothic, is now under continuous naval guard at Fremantle, where she berthed this morning in readiness to act as a living base for the Queen, the Duke and the Royal Household. The Gothic is being used to lessen the risk of poliomyelitis infection to any member of the party.

A suite in Government House, prepared for the Queen, will be used by her merely for resting periods between official engagements in Perth. Contact between the Gothic and the shore will be cut to a minimum throughout the stay from tonight until the departure from Australia on April Six new cases of poliomyelitis, reported in Western Australia today, took the total for the epidemic to 315 —six more than the total recorded in the State’s 1948 epidemic. The daily average of new cases reported this month is about double the daily average since the epidemic began late last year.