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Every member of...staff, armed with a tablecloth...was out on the lawn...they'd written the word CASEY with...tablecloths in letters 5 yards high on this lawn...and the butler had rung up the captain of the aircraft and said: 'Fly low over Government House', and...the aircraft...came screaming down...at 500 feet and here was this huge word CASEY on the lawn, and by golly, there were lots of wet eyes, I can tell you. That was it, that was Casey.
- Sir Murray Tyrrell describing the impromptu farewell given to Lord Casey by his devoted staff at Government House, Canberra, as he left the Office of the Governor-General in 1969. -
Australian of the Year 1969
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