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Magoffin reproduces a letter from a Townsville man attesting that 'Waltzing Matilda' was published on leaflets posted on the walls of several pubs in Hughenden in 1901 or 1902, before the song was first printed in Sydney in 1903. He also includes an article published in The North Australian Monthly and a letter from the author, F. P. Archer, about a parade through Hughenden by the 'Greenhide Push' singing the song, also in 1901 or 1902.
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Includes an illustration of the 'Greenhide Push' parade entitled 'How Waltzing Matilda cme to Hughenden'
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Subjects:
- The Story of 'Waltzing Matilda' 1944 single work criticism
- The North Australian Monthly 1954-1965 periodical (105 issues)
- Waltzing Matilda : Carrying a Swag 1895 single work poetry
- Hughenden, Hughenden - Pentland area, Far North Queensland, Queensland,
- ca. 1901
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