OPINION: Yesterday Today with Alan McRae

July 17 2017 - 6:30am
LANDMARK: The official party at the opening of the Bathurst Memorial Monument cairn at the bottom of William Street
LANDMARK: The official party at the opening of the Bathurst Memorial Monument cairn at the bottom of William Street

THIS is the first of a two-part series about the construction and opening of the Bathurst Memorial Monument cairn at the bottom of William Street.

Our photo shows the flag-draped platform erected on a truck for the accommodation of the official party: the mayor, Ald. P. J. Moodie, Dr. Norrie, Captain J.H. Watson, Mr. S.S. Russell of Manly (a grandson of Sir John Jamison, a member of Governor Macquarie’s party on the trip across the mountains), the Ven. Archdeacon Oakes, Reverends Canon Holmes and R.D. Peate, Messrs C.A. Kelly, M.L.A., R.S. Fraser and Miss Barker.

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