OUR HISTORY: When the NSW Governor came to town for the first time

By Griffith Historical and Genealogical Society
December 11 2019 - 3:00pm
CROWD: Residents flock Banna Avenue to see the NSW Governor in 1926. INSET: The front page of The Area News on October 21, 1926.
CROWD: Residents flock Banna Avenue to see the NSW Governor in 1926. INSET: The front page of The Area News on October 21, 1926.

When Sir Dudley Somerset Rawson de Chair, Real Admiral of the Fleet and Governor of NSW, disembarked from the train at Griffith in 1926, he captured the affection of the people, showed his obvious interest in, and sympathy with every phase of life in the area.

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