“Nowhere To Go.”

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19211, 18 September 1934, Page 3

“Nowhere To Go.”

ACCOMMODATION PROBLEM. GUARDS BANDSMEN. A MELBOURNE APPEAL. “All dressed up and nowhere to go” is likely to be the plight of the 44 members of the Grenadier Guards’ band when they reach Melbourne for the Centenary. •The Centenary Council, in cooperation with the Commonwealth Government and the New Zealand Government, has moved almost heaven and earth to obtain the permission of the Royal Household for the Guards’ band to come to Australia and the Dominion. But now the Centenary Council is faced with the fact that it cannot secure either hotel or boarding-house accommodation for the guardsmen in Melbourne. Messrs. J. and N. Tait, who are managing the tour on behalf of the Centenary Council and the Commonwealth, have made a public appeal to Melbourne citizens to take the 6ft. Grenadiers, complete with bearskins, busbies, scarlet tunics and gold brocade, into their homes as Centenary guests. Whitehall has told Messrs. J.' and N. Tait that the guardsmen are used to the best of everything. In the appeal it is guaranteed that each bandsman is handsome and debonair, but it is added that every man looks after his own bearskin and cleans his own equipment. That should be some inducement to Melbourne housewives,