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The Advertiser Sound Shell opened on 17 December 1954 to commemorate the visit of Queen Elizabeth II. It was one of the buildings demolished in 1972 to make way for the construction of the Festival Centre complex.
The reading of the first proclamation was first commemorated when the colony was judged to have ‘come of age’. Thereafter some commemoration has been held each year on 28 December.
A patriotic procession featuring 236 floats on 22 December.
