Box seats on March 12, 1913

By Ian Warden
Updated April 18 2018 - 11:06pm, first published December 3 2012 - 3:00am

Farmer Robert Peden of Bullamalita near Goulburn (''One historian told me 'Bullamalita' is an Aboriginal word meaning 'place of many butterflies','' he says) has made some momentous discoveries among family papers. He has his grandfather's official invitations to the Canberra events of March 12, 1913. Those events included Gertrude Lady Denman's pronouncement of what one reporter there called that ''mystical word'', the federal capital city's name. Those events are the peg on which we are hanging the coat of many colours of next year's Canberra centenary celebrations.

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