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    Letter from Charles La Trobe to Mayor, 2 December 1844, courtesy of Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre.
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    Statement from Robert Pattinson and Thomas Salter, 23 August 1844, courtesy of Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre.
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Hay and Corn Market

Melbourne's hay and corn sellers, supplying fodder for the city's horses, operated from the Western Market from 1841, later moving for a period to the St Paul's Cathedral site. The first official hay and corn market was established within the Eastern Market in Bourke Street in 1847, with traders sharing stalls with the other sellers at designated times during the day, but this quickly became an acrimonious arrangement. After petitioning the council, the hay and corn sellers were granted a site at the corner of Sydney Road and Mount Alexander (now Flemington) Road where a hay and corn market was erected in 1874 and ran into the late 1930s. The Royal Dental Hospital formerly operated from the old Northern Market site from 1963.

Sally Ruljancich