AUSTRALIA HOUSE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 5 August 1918, Page 5

AUSTRALIA HOUSE.

HEADQUARTERS IN LONDON OPENED. (Received Aug. 5, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 3. The King opened Australia House in the Strand as the Commonwealth i headquarters in London. It was an j imposing ceremony witnessed by greal crowds including soldiers and wounded , men. Suitable speeches were made bj jMr Hughes and others. When comi pleto the cost of the building will b« approximately a million. The newspapers praise the architoc j tural features, particularly the use o: 1 Australian materials, and declare tha it is the most notable public buildinj ■in the metropolis,—.Aus>-N.£. Gabl< J Assn.