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BRILLIANT SCENES IN SYDNEY CAVALCADE
SYDNEY, Monday.
In brilliant sunshine, eheeiing crowds estimated at more than 3OP.O00 lined Sydneys stieets this morning for one of the city'3 most spectacular and colourful piocessions - the Cavalcade" of
Jubilee-from Farm Cove to the Showgtound
More than 5 000 people and 51 floats worth £50 000, colourfully depicted Australia's agricultural, industrial, social and cultural de- velopment
The weathei caused concern
wheri light ram fell while the floats weie assembling at Fort Macquane, but this cleared quickly and the sun shone brightly
It was the most colourful pro- cession in Sydney since pre-war days,
The parade included 17 bands, numeious service detachments and youth organisations
One of the most colourful floats caned New Australians in
jaatioaal-v-costumes,! -*surmounted;" by "Miss Australia "
The cavalcade was three miles long and took 85 minutes to ¡lass the saluting base outside Ptihament House, where the Govei noi-General (Sir John Northcott) took the salute
St John Ambulance men and officers of Central District Am- bulance, stationed at pointa along the loute, tteated more than 300 people for collapse. Eight weie taken to hospital for
obsetvation
Aftei the piocession, the crowds stormed ttams and buses to get to the Jubilee gala at the Showgiound, the Sheffield Shield
cricket mareil, and Randwick
laces
Diivets who had parked cara In bide sheets in the Darling huist-Mooie Paik area were un- able to di ive away for almost an hour because of the flow of pe destnans aftei the procession
The Jubilee gala at the Show- ground featuted massed hands, army and police displays, physi- cal cultuie displays and the cav- alcade of jubilee
Ambulance officers treated 837 people foi collapse during the piocession
This was the greatest number of collapse cases in one day in Sydney since the opening ot the Hat bom Bridge m 1032, when more than 800 collapsed
At one stHgo t'o day, lal people collapsed in Elisabeth Bathuist and Livet pool Sti eeta within half
an hour
One ambulance officer who was on duty m Elizabeth Street said that people weie dtopping over
like flics
A ctowd estimated at moie than 30,000 attended the jubilee gala at the showgiound