AUSTRALIAN PREMIER

Grey River Argus, 14 June 1935, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN PREMIER

LIVERPOOL VISIT Lord Mayor’s Dinner (Aus. and N.Z Cable As<n.' (Received .Tune 1.". at 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. .Tune 13. The Lord Mayor of Liverpool. Councillor T. Richardson. tendered a dinner to Rt. lion. J. 11. Lyons. Prime Minister of Australia. The dinner took place a' tin' Town Hall, which is nearly two centuries old. The guests were seated in the ball room, which King Edward the Seventh described as one of the finest that he had over entered. Three huge chandeliers, each containing 750.000 pieces or glass, glittered on the silver ami gold plate that has been given the Lord Mayors of Liverpool since th* Seventeenth Century. .This ballroom is one of the show places of Liverpool. It has been visited by Kings. Among the mayoral rega'ia attached to Ihe

wall was a pair of staves such ns were used io lover the mail coaches out (d ruts in the roads in the old posting Mr Lyons, in the course of his speech, said that he wished that Aus tralia was doing more trade with Liverpool than it was at present. He be licvetl that the time w:>- near when Australia would be doing more trade with :1 greater population. Tie hoped that when this greater Australia eame. it wonhl be nearly all British, btnl, some times, one heard of migrant settlers’ failures in Australia. There were failures everywhere! Such people would have been failures had ther ic mained in Ihngland.