of Office Prox Ovn Own Sydney, Jan. 7.
For the past weeks, representative citizens and organizations have been busying themselves with a series of farewell demonstrations to his Exe cellency the Governor and Lady Game, who left New South Wales this week. Sir Philip' and Lady Game have made many personal, friends during their stay in Australia, and can count on the esteem of great numbers of the publi throughout the State who know them only by their charitable works up and down the land. They" won the" lasting affection and prepared an enduring memory for themselves in the country districts—and these" they toured <3 exhaustively as any Governor and his lady in Australian hlstory—by reason of their Interest the improvement of domestic life outback. Australia's children every. where have attracted them, Sir Philip Game has been Boy Scouts' own Governor, even In a period when every Australian State Governor takes a personal interest in the Scout Movement as an essential part of his social duties.
Sir Philip has seen the New South 'Wales people through a critical period "of their history' since his arrival here" in the middle of 1990. He has seen them under the ineldence of the world-wide economic depression, their endurance, struggles to emerge, and partial recovery. He was not a mere spectator, he and Lady Game threw themselves whole-'ReartedIy into every movement of community help for those less sble individually to meet the industrial distress, By the slight account frequently taken here of the good work which retiring State Governor can do. in England In. removing—misunderstandings, it is doubtful whether Australian public, even when sentl= mentally inclined the right way, fully appreciates: the benefits of the appointment of what irresponsibles call "imported" There must be few ex-Governors who not, as a result of their fiving in this country, become In some degree, and enduringly themselves Australian, as Sir Philip himself said to ex-service men who said farewell to him, "I came out here wholly a Pommy—but Tam going back half a digger." at time was regarded s necesezy.
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