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MELBOURNE'S FIRST BOY
Birth Registered 86 Years Aro
Melbourne was u cluster of settlers'
shanties when Edward Randal Scott
Stafford was born nearly 80 years aco.
Ills birth was tho first, entry In the
register ot . the old . St. James's
t-atnedral. and ho is said to bo the
ilrst white male born In Melbourne.
Mr. Stafford Is living at 29 Carlisle
street. St. Kilda. He has smoltcd
tobacco tor 70 years. Is not a strict
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birthday on February 28.
"Yes, we had no hansom in Mel
bourne when I was young," Mr. Staf
ford told a representative of "The
He:a!d" today. - "I can recall numer
ous native corroborces held right
where the city now stands. On one
occasion a bullock was. roasted for the
fchst on tho site of the present Mcl-
boiirno Hospital.
'"Wo bad ono policeman then, and
my father was appointed first offlccr
of Customs."
Mrs. Stafford still lives, but tlio old
couplo have' no surviving children.
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