SESQUICENTENARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1936, Page 8

SESQUICENTENARY

SYDNEY LOOKING AHEAD

CELEBRATIONS IN 1938

The 150 th anniversary of the founding of Sydney will take place in 1938, and plans are now being prepared for sesquicentenary celebrations which are likely to arouse even more interest than the recent Melbourne Centenary celebrations.

Sydney has been noted for the lavishness of its celebrations, particularly those associated with the opening of the harbour bridge, and the visit of the Duke of Gloucester. The chief organiser of both those celebrations, Mr. S. S. Crick, who is at present visiting Wellington, stated in an interview that the 1938 celebrations would be the most spectacular on record. In contrast with the Melbourne celebrations, which extended over a period of a year, the Sydney celebrations would be confined to a much shorter period.

Mr. Crick, who was recently elected an alderman of the Sydney City Council, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Lord Mayor, Sir Alfred Parker, said that the civic authorities in Sydney were formulating plans for the celebrations, and good progress had already been made.

Although it was too early to announce the .principal features of the celebration, a suggestion had been made that representative units of the British, American, and Japanese Fleets should be invited to visit Sydney during the celebrations. This visit, in addition to providing a magnificent spectacle, would be regarded as a peace gesture by Australia to the world.