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South Australia. Burra Boys' / Scouts Recreation rooms foundation stone

On 28 September 1918 a procession formed in Market Square, comprised of the Burra Cheerup Ladies Band, the school Fife and Drum Band, Boys Scouts, Wolf Cubs and Burra school-children, marched to Aberdeen for the foundation stone ceremony.

There the Ladies’ Band played the National Anthem, speeches were made and the foundation stone was laid by E W Crewes Esq. J.P. Mayor of Burra.

Aberdeen was one a small village on the west bank of Burra Creek: included in Burra since September 1940.

Refs: The Burra Record 2-10-1918 and Manning’s Place Names of South Australia.

 

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