LABOUR DAY
CELEBRATION AT SYDNEY. (Australian Press Association.) ‘ SYDNEY, October 6. y . Labour Day was to-day celebrated ..here, and was marked by the usual • Eight Hour Day. demonstration. There ryvas a procession thrrough the city, and •a .sports meeting at the Sydney -'Showgrounds. There was remarkably fine weather, assuring the'-success, of 'ttlie celebration. ; ■C w SYDNEY, October ’6.V . Regarding to-day’s Labour’Day celebration, much of the traditional flavour has gone out of the Eight . Ho ivs Procession. In to-day’s parade,/'apart from the new Trade Union banners symbolical of the’ various' industries; fully seventy-five per cent, was frankly a contribution to the bitter. New South Wales election ■ campaign. Sir Otto Niemeyer and the Premier, Mr Bavin, were lampooned \ in the* tableaux and painted signs, while members of the State Ministry were .depicted as highwaymen. • _ the sports . ; The following are. the principal -results in connection'with tW Eight Hour Day sports. 120yds Amateur Handicap: W. Cooper 8 Jyds, 1, K. Cttiimer" Byds -2i R. Day lyd 3, Time 12sec. i44oyds.~-J. Couldwell \lßyds 1, ' T., Gibson 24yds 2, J.'Giles 20yds' 3. Time 1 49 4-ssec. 1 . ; "- •' - ,J
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1930, Page 4
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