AUSTRALIAN SERVICE IN LONDON
t ßritish Official Wireless.i (Received 2.30 p.m.) RUGBY, January 26. Mr S. M. Bruce, High Commissioner in London for Australia, and Mrs Bruce, Major-General Sir Winston Dugan, Governor of South Australia, and Lady Dugan and agents-general of the various Commonwealth States attended a service at St. Clement Danes, London, to commemorate the establishment of the first settlement in Australia at Port Jackson on January 26, 1788.
Wreaths were deposited in the Church of St. Mildred, in Bread Street, “to the glorious memory of Admiral Arthur Philip.” Mr and Mrs Bruce held a reception in the afternoon at Australia House. In connection with the anniversary, a fiumber of documents of outstanding historical interest have been placed on exhibition in the museum of the Public Records Office.
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Northern Advocate, 27 January 1938, Page 7
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