Harbour waters lively with shuttling ferries, the coming and going of liners and freighters to the ports of the world, red roofs half-hidden in foliage above the twists and turns of the sparkling waters, and,, high above, the \coldssal steel arch of \the: bridge that links the suburban North' Shore to the city of towering buildings—such is the first glimpse of Sydney, Australia's oldest, gayest, and greatest city, and the second largest under the British Crown.
It was at Sydney Cove that Captain Phillip established in 1788 the first permanent white settlement in Australia and it is to celebrate the attaining of Australia's first 150 years of settlement that a special gala pro-
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