AUSTRALIAN TOUR

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1927, Page 18

AUSTRALIAN TOUR

TWO MONTHS IN THE COMMONWEALTH After the New Zealand visit of the Duke and Duchess ends, Their Royal Highnesses will spend two months in Australia. They are duo to arrive in Sydney on 25th March, and arc to spend nearly * fortnight in the Stato of New South.' Wales. Then they go to Brisbane and various places in Queensland. A visit to Hobart and the chief centres of Tasmania follows. They next visit Melbourne and tho principal towns of Victoria, making a stay of about three weeks in tho State, and going on to Adelaide for visits in South Australia On Oth May they return to Molbourne in preparation for tho great ceremony at Canberra. Here tho rejoicings wili be on a most extensive scale. All the mombers of the Commonwealth Government and the two Houses of Parliament will, of course, bo present, together with the leading officials of the' various Government Administrations, wives and families helping to swell the number. Large representative delegations from the several States are also expected. According to reports that have reached New Zealand,'visitors are likely to assemble in hundreds of thousands, at least 50,----000 it is estimated arriving by motorcar. Tor tho more permanent population, suitable provision has already been mado or is being made, but for the several days over which the festivities will extend, the feeding, temporary housing, and general arrangements for accommodating so vast an assembly will entail an enormous mass of detailed organsing work. v

Of course, chief interest will centre round the Parliament Buildings and offices, where the Prineo of Wales laid a commemorative stone during his recent visit. Tho Parliament House is described as a beautiful though simple structure, an amplo building of two floors, with Ministerial and Opposition rooms, Committee rooms, and all tho offiecs appertaining to a great Parliament, on tho plan of thoso to bo found at VVestminster.

The Duke and Duchess remain at Canberra for six days and then return to Melbourne for a journey to Western Australia. There they spend five days, and on 23rd May begin their homeward journey. Their return route will bo via Mauritius, where three days may bo spent, and the Suez Canal, with short visits to Malta and Gibraltar. They are timed to reach Portsmouth on Monday, 27th June, after an absence of nearly sis months.

typically and fragrantly English as our own wild rose.