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    Port Adelaide - North Parade

    Parliamentary Paper 17/1854 has information on the "piling" of North Parade.
    A letter regarding "North Parade as a Wharf" is in the Register,
    6 March 1866, page 3b,
    1 and 17 September 1856, pages 2e and 2h.

    A fire is reported in the Observer,
    14 and 28 November 1857, pages 5a-1g (supp.) and 3b. Also see
    5 June 1858, page 4h,
    11 September 1858, page 4f,
    Register,
    6 September 1858, page 3e.

    A petition from Henry Simpson concerning his leases from the government, including portion of North Parade, is in Parliamentary Paper 109/1871.

    Parliamentary Paper 130/1875 has a petition for handing over North Parade to the Port Adelaide Corporation - also see remarks on the "North Parade Question" in the Register on
    8, 15 and 16 March 1871, pages 6b, 3f and 5c,
    7 July 1871, pages 4f and 6c,
    6 and 12 October 1871, pages 5e and 3f,
    27 February 1872, page 5b,
    13 April 1872, page 5b,
    Express,
    18 December 1872, page 2f,
    Observer,
    13 January 1872, page 7b,
    2 March 1872, page 8c,
    13 April 1872, page 7f,
    21 December 1872, page 18d,
    Register,
    6 July 1876, page 4f,
    Advertiser,
    7 July 1876, page 4d.

    "Sly grogging" on North Parade is reported in the Register,
    23 October 1884, page 4h.