AMAZING SCENES.
WELCOME TO AUSTRALIANS
ENGLISHMEN’S ENTHIASTIC RECEPTION.
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.
Received 1.20 p.m. to-day. LONDON, April IS.
Never before in the- history of international cricket has there been anything like the amazing scenes of welcome” to the Australians. Two hours before tlie train’s arrival the streets outsi-de Victoria station were thronged with patiently waiting people. When the cricketers were recognised there was a spontaneous burst of cheering. The crowd -soon broke clown the barriers, and! the cricketers, amidst a surging mass, made their way to the charabanc which conveyed them to the Hotel Cecil. An unofficial guard of honour, comprised of men from tne cruiser Melbourne, hielpecL a -strong force or mounted xiolice to keep the crowd back. —-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 April 1926, Page 9
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122AMAZING SCENES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 April 1926, Page 9
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