MELBOURNE CENTENARY
HISTORICAL PAGEANTRY SPECTACULAR PROCESSION MELBOURNE, June 8 The city of Melbourne celebrated its centenary to-day, it being. 100 years since John Batman, remarking, "This •will bo the place for a village," chose the site of the settlement which was to become Melbourne.
The principal event in the observance to-day was an historical pageant. The procession was the most spectacular ever seen in Melbourne.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22131, 10 June 1935, Page 10
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