SYDNEY’S PAGEANTRY

Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1934, Page 5

SYDNEY’S PAGEANTRY

FESTIVITIES IN DUKE’S HONOUR.

GREAT SURF DISPLAY AT MANLY.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. Rec. 6.30 p.m. Sydney, Noy. 25. The weather on Saturday was heauti fully fine and unprecedented crowds followed the Duke of Gloucester stevery activity. Almost all Sydney emptied itself on to Manly this afternoon when a display of surf life-saving was presented by 700 members of surf clubs in honour of Prince Henry. . . Crowds began to collect in Manly streets hours before the Duxes amval and when he eventually arrived aboard the destroyer Stuart there was an amazing scene as tens of thousands wildly cheered hint along the route to the ocean LeacTi A feature of Saturday night’s celebrations was the Venetian carnival on rihe harbour witnessed by the Duke. ine programme included a searchlight display from the warships, a fireworks display, a parade of illuminated tioats an exhibition of night flying. The culmination to the most brilliant pageantry of its kind ever seen at Sydney was a portrait of the Duke in fireworks. It was loudly acclaimed by the populace collected in thousands at vantage points around the harbour. The Duke had no official engagement. He leaves for Orange to-morrow.