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on 28 November 1932. It was planned to donate money placed in the wishing well at the base of the monument to the
Gundagai District Hospital. A souvenir shop was also opened nearby. Copyright on the monument was vested in the Gundagai Hospital, who for many years received a useful income from receipt
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A more deliberate piece of vandalism was perpetrated a few months after its unveiling in 1933, when the name of Prime
Minister Lyons was chiselled away from the base of the monument, presumably as a political act. Rusconi reported that the only proper repair was to take the marble slab away to be
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A monument should be erected at the nine mile peg, dedicated to the pioneers and bullockys, who made the highway of to-day posible , and there should be an unveiling ceremony during "Back to
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poem, "Bullocky Bill", published anonymously by "Bowyang Yorke" in 1857. Other references state that the poem was published in 1880, in the
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monument was erected in 1932 as part of 'Back to
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and closer to the town, thereby more beneficial to tourism.
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