SYDNEY AT NIGHT
ORDERLY CROWDS
PAGEANTS TO BE REPEATED
(Received January 27,; 10 aim.) SYDNEY, This Day. ■ The city last night wa» a mass of moving, orderly humanity viewing the illuminations, a feature of which was at Hyde Park, even the trees of which were illuminated with myriad multicoloured lights skilfully concealed among the leaves. x There were terrific traffic jams.
The police estimate that more than a million people are gathered in the city.. ■ . .. ■' ..-.■..
Yesterday's casualties totalled 5346.
So enthusiastically . was the pageant received that it has been decided to repeat it, and a street procession, including new floats contributed by the commercial world of Sydney, will be held on April 9. The landing pageant at Farm Cove will be repeated in about a fortnight.
The New Zealand float won the first prize in the historical section of yesterday's procession.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 10
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