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Make Day For Flags

A call for more flags and bunting in Queensland cities and town to mark Australia Day, January 26, was made yesterday.

“Last year, most of the flags seen on Australia Day were those carried by children,” the Australia Day Celebration Committee secretary (Mr. W. Murphy) said.

“There should be plenty of flags available this year, as hundreds were sold in Queensland in preparation for the Royal tour,” he said.

Real significance

“To most Australians Australia Day is just another holiday. We are trying to change this attitude and make them realise its real significance as our national day.”

Mr. Murphy said 13 bands would take part in Monday’s procession through the city. Special trains will run to bring spectators into the city.

The procession is to be followed by a sports carnival at the Exhibition Grounds, including trotting, cycling, dancing, hunts, and a massed bands parade.

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New And Old Australians On Australia Day Floats

New Australians will follow Queensland aborigines on spectacular floats in Brisbane’s Australia Day procession on Monday.

The New Australians will ride on the Enoggera Holding Centre’s float and the aborigines, from Cherbourg, on the Department of Native Affairs’ float.

The procession will move off from George Street, near Elizabeth Street, at 10 am. All displays will assemble in George Street, and streets off George Street, towards the Botanic Gardens.

The procession will then move down Queen Street, through Wickham Street to the Valley, up Brunswick Street to Gregory Terrace, then down past the Exhibition Ground.

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The Courier-Mail, 24 January 1953

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Aust. Day Plans Ignore Rain

Organisers of Australia Day procession are stepping up final arrangements for Monday, and are ignoring rain possibilities.

“We are confident the procession will take place,” the Secretary of the Australia Day Celebration Committee (Mr. W. Murphy) said today.

“The final decision will not be made until Monday morning,” he said. “Should there be any change in plans, it will be broadcast over all radio stations.

Plans have been made for one of the city’s most colourful processions. “There will be plenty of colour and music,” Mr. Murphy said today.

The 2/14th Queensland Mounted Infantry Band will make its first public appearance. Six brass bands, including Northern Command and R.A.A.F., and eight pipe bands, will march.

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Brisbane Telegraph, 24 January 1953

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Big Australia Day Procession

Brisbane, Jan. 30.- Thousands lined city streets to-day to witness Brisbane’s biggest and most colourful Australia Day procession.

Two thousand people took part in the pageant, a feature of which was the wide variety of floats and the better standard of display than in previous years. R.A.A.F. Mustangs roared overhead in formation as the procession made its way along Queen-street.

Australia’s 162nd birthday was symbolised by the Australian Natives’ Association display showing Captain Phillip receiving his commission to found a colony in N.S. Wales.

The procession wended its way to the Exhibition Ground, where a full sporting programme was held.

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Queensland Times, 31 January 1950

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Put life into Australia Day

The Australia Day Celebration Committee wanted to put “life” into the Australia Day procession through Brisbane next year (January 26).

The committee secretary (Mr. D. Murphy) said this yesterday.

Purely commercial floats would be eliminated. Seventeen bands would take part.

For the Exhibition Ground ceremony, there would be a military tattoo, a parade of massed pipe bands, and athletic and equestrian events.

A public dinner would be held at night at the Victoria Park Golf Club.

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Sunday Mail, 14 December 1952

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Ancient Cars For City Procession

Ancient motor cars, some nearly as old as Federation, will take part in the Australia Day procession in Brisbane on January 29.

Two sections in the cavalcade of cars will cater for those before 1920 and those between 1920 and 1930.

At least one 1904 model has already been promised.

The car section of the procession is being organised by the Chamber of Automotive Industry and the R.A.C.Q.

The Australia Day Celebration Committee secretary (Mr. W. Murphy) said last night the procession would be the biggest to pass through Brisbane.

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The Courier-Mail, 15 January 1951

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Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II as monarch of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon took place on 2 June 1953, at Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth ascended the throne at the age of 25, upon the death of her father, King George VI, on 6 February 1952, and was proclaimed queen by her various privy and executive councils shortly afterwards.

The coronation took place more than a year later because the tradition that holding such a festival is inappropriate during the period of mourning that follows the death of a monarch and also on account of the need to make preparations for the ceremony. During the service, she took and subscribed an oath to, among other things, govern the peoples according to their respective laws and customs, was anointed with holy oil, presented and invested with regalia,

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City Parade Prizes

A prize will be given for the most typical Australian girl in next Monday’s Australia Day procession.

A pennant will also be awarded to the best float in each of the 11 groups in the procession.

The Australia Day Celebration Committee secretary (Mr. W. Murphy) said this yesterday.

Twelve bands will march in the procession. They will include the Northern Command, Queensland Mounted Infantry, and RAAF Bands.

Sports will be held at the Exhibition Ground starting at 11 am.

Mr. Murphy said the Australia Day committee would be grateful for suggestions on the form celebrations should take.

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The Courier-Mail, 23 January 1953

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