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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

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