The volunteer waterside workers are drawn chiefly from the camp at Taronga Park. Our picture shows some of them waiting at the wharf for instructions concerning their day's tasks, to which they are conveyed in launches. Journeying to and from the park these launches receive a good deal of attention from passengers on the ferry boats, who heartily cheer the stalwart men that have come from the country districts to replace the strikers. The camp at Taronga Park was established under the direction of Colonel Spain, V.D., and the volunteers express the utmost satisfaction with what has been done for them. The loyalists camped at Taronga Park, the Cricket Ground, and the Abation's have decided to present a battleplane to the Imperial army for service in the war, as a commemoration of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), Wed 19 Sep 1917, Page 14
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