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Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York returned last week from their Australian tour (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.), in the course of which they inaugurated the new Federal Capital of Australia at Canberra (TIME, May 16), and circumnavigated the globe...
...person hazed was His Royal Highness, Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York, now in Australia to open next week the new Federal Capital, Canberra (TIME, April 18). The Duke, second son of the King-Emperor, had just received an honorary degree from the University of Melbourne, when dental students of that institution swarmed up and offered to "welcome" him into their Students' Club. His Royal Highness, necessarily complacent, submitted to "ragging" as follows...
Last week, on the broad Canberra plain, the new Parliament House stood completed, smelling strongly of fresh paint and plaster. Teeming were the Canberra Hotel ("finest in the Southern Hemisphere"), the Ainslee, the Kurrajong, the Acton Hotel, and the three large boarding hotels which the Government has erected for civil servants until their cottages and houses are finished...
...guarantee the symmetrical growth of Canberra not a square inch of ground will be sold for 99 years. During that period three Federal commissioners have absolute discretion as to the rental of land on 99-year leases, rents to be re-appraised every decade. Moreover the Commissioners must approve the plans of every structure in Canberra before it can be erected. They will approve no tenements, no stores or factories in residential districts; no buildings of a height, size or type which does not fit into the city plan. For 99 years Canberra will be the only state-owned capital...
...George V, King and Emperor, who inaugurated the Australian Commonwealth two decades and a half ago when he was Duke of York. It was Edward, Prince of Wales, who laid the cornerstone of the Capitol Building at Canberra six years ago. This month it is Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York, who has arrived with his Duchess in Australia after a tour of New Zealand (TIME, March 21, 28), to open the new Australian Parliament...