Summary

Decorated car and crowd outside the Melbourne General Post Office on the corner of Bourke and Elizabeth Streets, Melbourne, January 1916. Foundation Day (now Australia Day) was marked on 26 January each year, but in Victoria was celebrated on a Monday, and hence in 1916 was held on 31 January.

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Foundation (Australia) Day celebrations in Melbourne. There is a decorated car in the foreground and the General Post Office behind. The car won the first prize for a decorated car.

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