the USA imposed heavy immigration restrictions and the second, after 1936, when the 4 August Regime of General Ioannis Metaxas took power in Greece. The third wave occurred after the Greek Civil War when many ethnic Macedonians fled Greece. Charles Price estimates that by 1940 there were 670 Ethnic Macedonians from Florina and 370 from Kastoria resident in Australia. Peter Hill also estimates a figure of 50,000 Aegean Macedonians (including those born in Australia and excluding Slavophone Macedonians who identify as Greeks). 2.5% of adherents to the Macedonian Orthodox Church in Australia were born in Greece while 3,152 speakers of Macedonian were born in Greece and 2,919 people born in Greece claimed ethnic Macedonian ancestry or roughly 3.6% of the total population group. Aegean Macedonians were essential in the establishment of the Macedonian Australia People league (Macedonian: Makedono-Avstraliski Naroden Sojuz) which dominated ethnic Macedonian life throughout the 1940s and 1950s. They then went on to establish organisations and events such as Macedonian Cultural Week, Preston Makedonija, Makedonska Iskra, Macedonian Community of S.A, Nova Makedonija and many others. There are Aegean Macedonian minorities in Richmond, Melbourne, Manjimup, Shepparton, Wanneroo and Queanbeyan. The Church of St George and the Florina Community Centre and Day Care center was built in Shepparton the Aegean Macedonian hall - Kotori was built by 32 families from the village Kotori in Richmond. Another Church was established by Aegean Macedonians in Queanbeyan and a hall erected in Manjimup. Other Aegean Macedonians organisations include the "Macedonian Aegean Association of Australia" and the "Richmond Aegean Macedonian Cultural and Sporting Association. Sports Many Macedonians in Australia are involved with Soccer and other sports. Some of the various clubs they have helped to establish are: New South Wales Sydney Bankstown City Lions or Sydney MacedoniaRockdale City Suns or Rockdale IlindenYagoona Lions or Yagoona MacedoniaArncliffe Scots or Arncliffe MacedoniaWollongong Wollongong United or Wollongong MacedoniaLake Heights JFC Cringila Lions Coniston Lions or Coniston MacedoniaShell Cove Barbarians or Illawarra PelisterNewcastle Broadmeadow Magic or Newcastle MacedoniaNewcastle Suns Macedonia Junior SC Queanbeyan Queanbeyan City or Queanbeyan MakedoniaVictoria Melbourne Preston Lions or Preston Makedonia (originally "the Makedonia Soccer Club") Altona Magic or Altona VardarPascoe Vale or PelisterSydenham Park SC or Sydenham Park MacedoniaPlenty Valley Lions or LerinLalor United or Lalor SlogaPlenty Valley Lions or Lerin FCKeilor Wolves or Keilor PelagonijaNoble Park SC or Vesela MakedoniaAltona Lions or Altona IlindenFootscray United Vardar Geelong Geelong SC or Geelong MacedoniaShepparton Shepparton