CELEBRATIONS BEGIN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18528, 15 October 1934, Page 7

CELEBRATIONS BEGIN

■ MELBOURNE CENTENARY IMPRESSIVE SERVICE _ (Received Oct. 15, noon) MELBOURNE, Oct. 14. The centenary celebrations may now be said to have begun. Beflagged streets and illuminated buildings await the arrival of the Duke of. Gloucester oil Thursday. The city is crowded with visitors. Forty thousand people attended a thanksgiving service on the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. A choir of 3500 was accompanied by five bands with 200 players. The Archbishop of Melbourne and ministers of other denominations offered thanks for the bless-, ings bestowed on Victoria over 100 years. The scene was one of striking reverence and calm after the tumults yesterday in connection with the Caulfield Guineas and football final. Though the celebrations on Tuesday may be menaced by a tramway stoppage over the wages dispute, the emergency transport arrangements are complete. The railways are not affected, but the men are dissatisfied. The board offered to share the extra profit made during the centenary, but the men are demanding a permanent increase of 2s per day at a tot'al cost of £164(000 per year. The events of the week include the world professional billiards championship, the Cattlemen’s Carnival, the Royal Agricultural Show, the Caulfield Cum and the Grenadier Guards’ Band.

The Premier, Sir Stanley Argyle, announced that a soecinl committee appointee! by the Ministry had submitted proposals for dealing with all traffic reoniroments in the went of the tramwaymen carrying out their throat to cease work. An auxiliary motor bus service has hern planned that would operate % substantially along the tramway routes.