MELBOURNE CUP CROWD
MELBOURNE. November fl. To-morrow’s Melbourne Cup crewd 18 expected to be as biff as ever, if not bigger, even though the trains hive been tied up in Victoria for three weeks. Visitors have poured into the city by car and aeroplane. All hotels and boarding-houses are full, and every Available caravan has been hired out About 1000 people, including 540 from New South Wales, will fly from other States to Melbourne to-morrow and return the same day. Business men -from Bourke and Parkes have chartered three aeroplanes for the trip, and Other special aeroplanes include nine from Sydney and others from Canberra. Newcastle, Brisbane, and Hobart. The outgoing rush after Wiii make the Essendon. aerodrome. Melbourne, one of the busieat in the Er..« pire In one hour 20 aeroplanes art, scheduled to take off for other State*. Airline companies are taking passengers to and from the course in their own buses.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26263, 7 November 1950, Page 7
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