EMPIRE PIONEERS
TRIBUTE TO THEIR EFFORTS. MELBOURNE CENTENARY. THE DUKE’S MISSION. WEATHER AND CRICKET TESTS. (Received 0 a.m.) LONDON, July 25. The ribbons and medals of many of the best-known public men in the Parliamentary, military and naval spheres made a brilliant seem; at a dinner given at the Savoy Hotel by Mr S. M. Bruce, in honour of the Duke of Gloucester. Mr Bruce expressed the company’s best wishes for the Duke’s coming tour of Australia and New Zealand. He said this was another instance of the service the Royal Family was prepared to render to the British people, and he wondered if the Duke of Gloucester realised how great was the burden of responsibility which his family carried. “The day the Monarchy goes the British Empire falls apart,” said Mr Bruce. The Duke of Gloucester, in reply, said it was most fitting to make such anniversaries ns the Centenary of Melbourne the occasion for celebrating the memory of the pioneers of the Empire, to whom was due the honour and the credit for the Empire’s success. He expressed sympathy with the Australian cricketers because they had been deprived by the weather of a win in the test match at Leeds. He said all hoped the luck would change, and that in the last deciding test no outrageous piece of fortune would prevent the better side from holding the Ashes,
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Northern Advocate, 27 July 1934, Page 7
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