23 October 1973
Pictured at Albury Travel Lodge Cr. Les Stone JP Mayor of the Rural City of Wodonga, Hon Tom Uren MP Federal Minister for Urban & Regional Development; the Prime Minister Hon Gough Whitlam MP QC and The Hon Sir Robert Askin MP KCMG Premier of NSW. Others to arrive included Alderman Tom Persall JP Mayor of Albury, Hon (later Sir) John Fuller MP NSW Minister for Decentralisation, Hon Rupert aka Dick Hamer MP Premier of Victoria and the Hon Murray Byrne MLC Victorian Minister for State Development & Decentralisation.