Labor Day Marches Past - A Fishy Float from 1940.

These two chaps look as though they're gutting a giant fish who had made a meal of a truck but are in fact putting the final touches on the The Fish Board's Labor Day float of 1940.

Eat More Fish. The Fish Board.

 Department of Labor and Industry blowing there horn with all manner of milestones and statistics, Labor Day 1940.

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Main Roads Commission, Labor Day float, 1940. 

Kelvin Grove branch of the ALP, sailing down Queen Street at Petrie Bight, Customs House to the right. 

 The favourite float of the parade. Perkins Brewery Labour Day float of 1913, drinks at hand.

Ipswich Railway Workshop,  Labour Day Procession, Brisbane, 1913.

Brisbane Noir!  United Operative Bricklayers Society,Labour Day March, Brisbane, ca. 1950

Labor Day Parade, Brunswick Street Fortitude Valley, 1911. From the awning of the Shamrock Hotel looking down Brunswick towards Wickham, Cooks Picture Palace on the corner of Alfred and Brunswick Street is sill stands (though modified) today.

Stripe aproned butchers pose in front of the State Butcheries float for the Labor Day Parade of 1920. If the butchers had applied the same level of thinking put towards the State Fish Board float then this would know doubt be a giant T-Bone steak.

Images from the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

Brisbane Winter - Overcoats, Gloves & Slippers - McWhirters Catalogue 1950.

Source:

 John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

http://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=SLQ&docId=slq_voyager730793 

Anzac Day in Brisbane.......from the John Oxley Library.

1907

Australian Field Artillery Light Horse Battery, ca. 1907.This photograph was taken on the present site of Anzac Square, Brisbane, top left is Central Railway station, the site had a long association with the military prior becoming Anzac Square as the site was home to the Adelaide Street Drill Sheds which can be seen in this image.

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Images from the John Oxley Library,
State Library of Queensland.

Promiscuous Use Prohibited - Why Anzac Day Isn't Made In China!

Kops Brewers, Brisbane. Honour to the living. Immortal glory to the dead. 

Trademark rejected.

Ever notice the lack of Anzac, as opposed to Australia Day merchandise disgoroging itself from the supermarket shelves. Look high, look low, the only or pruduct sporting the name  Anzac will be on a packet of biscuits, all thanks to the Protection of Word 'Anzac’ Regulations were made in 1921 under the War Precautions Act Repeal Act 1920, the War Precautions Act being the original legislation that protects the word ‘Anzac’, and any word which alludes to it, from inappropriate use. The use of the name Anzac for a biscuit is one of the few very few exceptions that protect the commercial exploitation of the name Anzac .

Sydney Morning Herald, October 21st, 1916. "Promiscuous Use Prohibited".

When enacted in 1916, all manner of businesses, fruit shops, boarding houses and pubs, even theatre-troupes were forced by the new legislation to remove any reference from there business names and commercial operations. At the same time patents and trademarks in relation to the word Anzac were expunged and future applications would be rejected, no type of merchandise or product could bare the Anzac name or an  allude to it.

Business premises around the country were forced to remove all references to ANZAC.

The Act provides for the Minister, today it is the Minister for Vet Affairs. to grant permission for the use of the word Anzac and dispute the Act being quite clear in its purpose, this didn't stop all manner of persons applying to use the name but in nearly all instances they were denied. Even Australia's celebrity aviator had his request to name one of his aircraft Anzac for the Centenary Race from England to Australia. Smith had to settle for the name Lady of the Southern Cross and subsequently withdrew from the 1934 race due to a lack of preparation.

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith "... Government regrets that it is unable to see its way to accede to your request.

Similar legislation was enacted in the United Kingdom where all manner of businesses were identified as exploiting the Anzac name, one example being the ANZAC Motor Company Ltd who manufactured trucks in England that were built on a chassis imported from General Motors Corporation of U.S.A..

ANZAC Motor Co. Ltd. Made in England on a U.S.A. built chassis.

Thanks to the War Precautions Act of 1921, Anzac Day will be one public holiday where you will not be able to theme your car with a plastic novelty or lounge around in Anzac themed thongs and bikini tops. Next time you're at the supermarket make sure you buy a tin of Anzac biscuits as the Returned & Services League receives 4 per cent of the sales.


There is a complete album of material I fished from the National Archives of Australia posted on the McWhirters Project Facebook page. Look out for but try not takingf offence at    Anzac : The Board Game and The Anzac Gollywog Co., a double harbinger of inappropriateness.

To read more about the Australian Government legislation that protects the name Anzac, click here.

From the National Archives of Australia

Records:

A32 1929/3484 PART 3

A432 1929/3484 PART 9

A432 1929/3484 PART 17

A432 1929/3484 PART 19

A432 1929/3484 PART 25

ANZAC Theme Covers from The Australian Women's Weekly 1934-1947.

The cover above was the very first of The Australian Women's Weekly with an ANZAC theme and was published in April 1934, at that time the magazine had only been established for 10 months. The "Tribute" reads:

Not only for the men who fell

Our bells are rung,

Not only for the valiant dead

Our anthems sung.

Theirs are the spirits living on

Deathless in pride,

Their names in gold on British rolls;

Our men who died.

Our tribute too for those who live

And battle yet

With all the aftermath of war

That none forget.

The fallen live eternally,

Their triumphs ring.

God help the heroes living still....Remembering. 

P. Duncan - Brown

Source:

1934  The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 28 April, 

 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page4604835 

1939 The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 29 April, 

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page5283690 

1941 The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 26 April, 

, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page4716550 

1943 The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 24 April,

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page4721321 

1945 The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 21 April, 

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page4725810 

1947 The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 26 April,

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page4782523

A Real Queensland Crossword Puzzle from 1928.

Source:

1928 '[No heading].', The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), 6 December, p. 65, viewed 15 April, 2012, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page2396967

Wee Gumnut Babies Bib and Bub. Tales & Pictures. May Gibbs. 1926.

Source:

1925 'Bib and Bub.', Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1885 - 1954), 28 February, p. 8 Section: MAGAZINE SECTION, viewed 14 April, 2012, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61574440