WHEN we hear of the centenary of some institution or building being celebrated in Australia we are apt to regard it as very old. But one has to travel to discover actually how young anything that has had but one hundred years' existence can be, provided it is inanimate. In Rome one will see buildings and monuments traced back thousands of years. In England similar reminders of history traverse many centuries some a thousand ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Referee (Sydney, NSW : 1886 - 1939), Wed 5 Apr 1933, Page 11
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