DAME MELBA SAILS
A FAREWELL MESSAGE.
"I am leaving Australia for a short holiday, and will soon bo back, as Australia is my home," said Dame Nellie Melba, who was a passenger 'on theMaloja, which left Melbourne for England on November 26. "Tell the Australian people that I love them all from the bottom of my heart, and cannot leave them for long. I am overjoyed with the success of the opera season, and have never realised until now what a wonder- . j ; ful music-loving people the Australians are." « ' Shortly before the Maloja moved off, . Dame Melba was surrounded by scores of : ; : friends and an almost impregnable barrier .;,-. of flower*' , ■. ;' ~ ". fy l' :^ Bfl
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18885, 6 December 1924, Page 11
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