NORFOLK ISLAND.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13510, 2 July 1914, Page 5

NORFOLK ISLAND.

TRANSFER TO THE COMMON- <

WEALTH.

(Received July 2, 1 a.m.) \ Sydney, July 1.

Norfolk Island was en fete to-day in connection with the ceremony of trans* ferring the administration from New South Wales to the Commonwealth Government.

The acting-Administrator read the> proclamation vesting control in the Go-vernor-General instead of in the Gover- -

nor «£ New South Wales., i The Adi::inistnitct' io-nigti eiiieftained the whole of lk& JiihaMta'nts' afc a ball in honour of the occasion.