ANNIVERSARY FETE

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1938, Page 9

ANNIVERSARY FETE

SYDNEY DECORATED

VISITORS ARRIVING

GAMES PREPARATIONS

SYDNEY, January 20.

Visitors from all parts of the world are arriving at Sydney for the Sesqulcentenary celebrations and the Empire Games. Hotel accommodation is rapidly filling.

Fancy prices are being paid for seats and windows along the route of next Wednesday's pageant, "March to Nationhood."

Five miles of the streets of the city have been gaily decorated. Flagstaffs have been erected every 50 yards. Tall city buildings are draped and dressed in rich colourings.

A feature of the illuminations will be the Harbour Bridge, which, by means of 17,000,000 candle-power flood-light-ing, will be a spectacle of indescribable beauty.

All the statues and most of the city parks and gardens will^ be a blaze of colour at night.

Athletes from all parts of the Empire are training for the Empire Games. They 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, cruiserweight champion of the British Empire, to visit Australia and fight Ambrose Palmer on McAvoy's own terms, £2000, or the option of 30 per cent, of the gate receipts. The fight is scheduled for March.