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Brisbane To Have 12 Storey Building

Brisbane, June 1. – A £400,000 twelve-storey building is to be built in Brisbane. The building which will be situated on the corner of Adelaide and Edward-streets is being built for the Mutual Life and Citizens’ Assurance Co. Ltd. and will be the most modern in Australia.

It is the first large-scale building to be erected in Brisbane since 1938. New construction methods will enable the building to be completed before December next year. The building will be 132 feet high the maximum height allowed.

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Maryborough Chronicle, 22 June 1954

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Bright procession planned for 1953 Australia Day

Drum majorettes, clowns, and stunts are sought by the organisers of Brisbane’s Australia Day procession on Monday, January 26.

They are part of the Australia Day Celebration Committee’s plans for a better, brighter procession.

The committee secretary (Mr. W. Murphy) said yesterday that public address systems would describe the floats, and a prize would be given for the most typical Australian girl in the procession.

Pipe bands and Army brass bands would march, and all Brisbane brass bands had been invited to take part.

Business firms could enter floats of significance for the day, but blatant advertising floats were “out.”

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The Courier-Mail, 9 January 1953

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A float is a decorated platform, either built on a vehicle like a truck or towed behind one, which is a component of many festive parades.

Parade floats were first introduced in the Middle Ages when churches used pageant wagons as movable scenery for passion plays. Artisan guilds were responsible for building the pageant wagons for their specified craft.

The wagons were pulled throughout the town, most notable during Corpus Christi in which up to 48 wagons were used, one for each play in the Corpus Christi cycle.

They are so named because the first floats were decorated barges on the River Thames for the Lord Mayor’s Show.

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Set For Record Australia Day

Brisbane’s Australia Day procession tomorrow will be more than a mile in length and promises to be one of the most colourful ever.

The procession has been divided into 11 groups, each led by a band. one feature will be the first appearance in Queensland of the 2/14 Queensland Mounted Infantry Band.

The procession will proceed via George-street, into Queen, Wickham, Brunswick-street, down Gregory-terrace and past the Exhibition grounds.

A sports carnival at the Exhibition grounds will commence at 11 a.m. and continue to 6 p.m.

A 2 p.m. the Attorney-General, Mr. W. Power, will perform the official ceremony of unfurling the Australian flag.

Events include trotting, cycling, dancing, hunts and other horse events, novelties, massed dancing displays, army displays, a baseball carnival and massed band parades.

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Truth, 25 January 1953

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