General Sir Wm. Birdwood was the guest of the Australian and New Zealand Luncheon Club at the Hotel Cecil in mail week. Sir Edward Lucas, the retiring Agent-General for South Australia, presided.
The Chairman, proposing “Our Guest”, said that criticisms were sometimes made on the slow growth at population in Australia; but in a hundred years it had been multiplied more than 200 times; and it was greater than was the population of Canada at the end of its first century. The progress made by Australia in every direction had been extraordinary.
Published – February 11, 2025 03:41 am IST