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...would do as he asked with all speed, but this applies only to the United Kingdom and its Crown colonies. George VI is in each Dominion separately King, and no act of the Mother of Parliaments can settle in London who is to be Regent as far as Ottawa, Canberra, Wellington, Cape Town or Dublin are concerned...
That's the story." Canberra, the Capital of Australia: Devout Catholic Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons convenes an emergency session of the Australian Parliament for this week and keeps in continuous touch with Stanley Baldwin by short-wave radio...
...Canberra, the bleak inland capital that has already cost Australia more than $50,000,000, a "southerly burster" caught up with Gloucester, raised floods that temporarily marooned him in Great House, gave him a case of catarrh. He had to cancel a few engagements with the "outback country...
...Totally marooned at Government House in Australia's "Garden Capital," Canberra, last week was the Duke of Gloucester. Reason: a flood which boiled around Government House for miles. Inconvenient, unpopular and sparsely populated, the seven-year-old "Garden Capital" has cost over $50,000,000. Dominion officials felt that His Majesty's third son should see it, barely got him into Government House before the flood burst...
Part of Australia's brief surplus will go for public works. Canberra, the still half-built "Washington of Australia." will get a water system, and Premier Lyons will be able to speak to his old home in Tasmania by a submarine telephone cable...