QUEUE AT AUSTRALIA HOUSE.
“TO MEET THE PRINCE.’
LONDON, Jan. 15.—At this season of the year London is generally denuded c,f Australian visitors. Australia House library, however, is at the moment overwhelmed with callers, who all day long stand in a- queue to sign the visitors’ book, despite the fact that the lists for the reception to be given to the Prince of Wales are already closed. The callers are hopeful of receiving invitations “to meet the Prince,” but in many cases their Australian connections are hard to trace, and are sometimes based on a visit to New Zealand before the wav, or a relationship to a cousin who once emigrated thereMany long-lost Australians have been rediscovered. The most ancient'entry in the book used to be a visitor who arrived in 1881. This is now beaten by Miss Sturt, the daughter of Sir Charles Sturt, of South Australia. She arrived in England in 1853 at the age of nine, but she still claims Australian identity.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16042, 1 February 1923, Page 10
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165QUEUE AT AUSTRALIA HOUSE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16042, 1 February 1923, Page 10
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