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Includes typed poem, ‘Oh Australia’ by L.A. Houghton, J.P,. Canterbury, NSW, enclosed between pages 30 and 31. Begins ‘Oh Australia the land of the brave and the free / The fairest of all Isles all honours due to thee / The emblem pure of wattle gold / Thy waratah so bright / Could we who love thee dearly / Abide thee from our sight.’ Includes chorus: ‘Oh Australia, Oh Australia / Symbolic of sunshine thy golden fleece / Symbolic of sunshine thy golden fleece’.