A PAGEANT OF PROGRESS
A feature of" the Duke of Gloucestei's visit to Australia is the pait that the life of the country is playing in it. The Duke has escaped from cities and ceremonial sufficiently to inspect and ride on some of the best horseflesh in the country, including ex-racehorses and animals similarly mettlesome. He will not forget that, even in these days of motor tiaffic, Australia is a horse countiy; nor will he overlook the fact that Australia used to be (and in some ways still is) a bullockwagon country. To make the matter plain, Cootamundra utilised, as a reception dais, a bullock wagon with ten bullocks yoked up, and a sheepdog sleeping underneath. Upturned logs served as seats,, and the Duke himself sat on the tucker-box. From the bullock wagon to the air race (England-Australia in less than three days) covers a fair span of human progress. Without these touches, a pageant like the progress of the Duke would be incomplete.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 114, 10 November 1934, Page 8
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164A PAGEANT OF PROGRESS Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 114, 10 November 1934, Page 8
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