AF00101281 Premiers correspondence 1947-1948. NRS-12060 [9/3452] 47/3607 - Flipbook - Page 126
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PREMIER'S DEPARTMENT, SYDNEY.
EXTRACTS FROM "SYDEEY MORNING HER ALD"
Thursdqv, 4.9.47.
VICTORIAN GIFT TO
PRINCESS
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—
The Victorian Premier, Mr. Cain,
announced that s a piece of furniture
made from locarlitMer wou
Saturday
.9.4
Royal Wedding
Gift May
Be Silver Plate
CANBERRA, Friday. The
Australian Government i Srisiaenng a
arryin. is inc ive Australian_de112_.
1 as a wedding present to
Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant
Philip Mountbatten.
The gift of silver, if decided
upon, will be a simple one, but
of very fine craftsmanship.
A number of possible presents
is being examined in Melbourne
for the Prime Minister's Department.
7-1 5.9.47.
Australia's Gift
To Princess
Not Yet Known
CANBERRA, Thursday.
— The Commonwealth
Government will send Prinsubstantial
cesss Elisabeth
resent "of an esse lly
ustralian character" for
her wedding to Lieutenant
Phillip Mountbatten on
November 20.
Federal Cabinet has several
gifts under consideration, but a
decision has not yet been made.
It was stated to-day that the
present would be a household
article of Australian material.
The Minister for External
Affairs, Dr. Evatt, will represent
Australia at the wedding, if 'his 1
commitments permit.
He left to-night for the United
States to represent Australia at the
preliminary peace talks on. Japan,
and he has then to attend the
meeting of the General Assembly
of UNO.
i His present programme takes
him well into November.
If Dr. Evatt cannot attend the
wedding, Australia will he represented by her High Commissioner
in London, Mr. Beasley.
Fr Id a 12.9.47.
Victorian Gift
For Princess
*K.....
MELBOURNE, Thursday.
he Victorian Government wishes
to ma_ a rincess iza ethaxs4.
din
oudoir w •
table made from Victorian mod.
The Premier, Mr. Cain, said tonight that if the Princess desired
some other article made from Victorian timber, the Government
would be pleased to meet her
wishes.
