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Article: Fed: Duke arrives in Wagga Wagga to low key welcome
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- March 21, 2000
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AAP General News (Australia)
03-21-2000
Fed: Duke arrives in Wagga Wagga to low key welcome
WAGGA WAGGA, New South Wales, March 21 AAP - The Duke of Edinburgh made a low-key arrival
in Wagga Wagga today with just a smattering of schoolchildren on hand to welcome him.
Prince Philip flew into Wagga Wagga Airport for a full day of engagements in the southwestern
New South Wales city.
The horse-loving Duke was whisked from the airport to the Charles Sturt University
Equine centre, where he inspected a world-first development for a test to detect performance
enhancing drugs in horses.
He was also shown sheep demonstrating how far the merino bloodline had come since John
Macarthur introduced ...