A particularly enthusiastic and pleasing greeting was accorded the Duke and Duchess of York in the school children's demonstration at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday afternoon. Our picture (taken from the scoring board) shows an outline of the map of Australia, with word "Welcome" in the centre, the whole composed of boys and girls. In the foreground are seen Maypoles, and in the distance the densely packed grandstands are western and southern-months ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 200 wordsThe Union Jack formation was another excellent demonstration. On the left of our view are depleted, in appropriate colour easembles, first St. Patrick's Cross, next St. George's Cross, and then St. Andrew's Cross, while to the right is the Union Jack. The juveniles throughout the afternoon execuited their work with the greatest credit to themselves and their instructors. The Duke and Duchess, smiling their appreciation and thanks, motored around the Oval enclousure at the beginning and end of the proceedings, flanked by the cheering boys and girls, and were accorded soul-stirring applanse by the huge concourse of admiring spectators. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Wed 4 May 1927, Page 13
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