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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Churches

Churches, 1929

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Casino Methodist Church Innovation

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 4

Casino Methodists decided upon an innovation at the circuit quarterly meeting last week. It was agreed to have powerful electric bulbs placed overhead…

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Churches Menaced Bush Fires Near Cessnock Damage in Lithgow District. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 4

Disastrous bush fires are raging at Laguna, 13 miles from Cessnock. Residents are making valiant efforts to stem the flames, but hundreds of acres of grass…

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Local and General South Grafton Presbyterian Church

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 February 1929 · page 2

The annual congregational meeting of the above church will be held this evening at 8 o'.clock. Annual reports will be presented, committee for 1929 elected,…

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South Grafton Presbyterian Church

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 February 1929 · page 4

Owing to the wet night the annual congregational meeting was postponed from Monday to Thursday. (to-morrow), at 8 p.m. The same arrangements, will…

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Hermannsburg Mission Outbreak of Dysentery. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 2

The Government Resident at Alice Springs has advised the Minister for Home Affairs, Mr. Abbott, that the outbreak of dysentery at the Hermannsburg…

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CONFISCATION R. C. Church Property Mexico President's Decision. Mexico City

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 5

In a signed statement printed in the newspapers, President Gil accused the Roman Catholic Church elements with fomenting trouble in Mexico…

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Ulmarra Church of England

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 8

The Annual Flower Show and Industrial Exhibition connected with St. Paul's Anglican Church, Ulmarra, will be hold on April 4 and 5, and arrangements are…

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South Grafton Presbyterian Sunday School

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 February 1929 · page 4

The third anniversary, service and harvest, festival will be celebrated at the week-end. At 7.30 p.m. on Sunday the service will be Conducted by the Rev. J…

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North Dorrigo Methodist Sunday School

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 15 February 1929 · page 2

The anniversary services in connection with the North Dorrigo Methodist Sunday School are announced to take place next Sunday. Mr. H. L…

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Methodist Church

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 February 1929 · page 4

The Methodist Choir resumed practice last week, and begins the year with augmented members. They will render the anthem, " The King of Love," on Sunday…

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Presbyterian Men's League

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 February 1929 · page 4

The Presbyterian Men's League is holding a social evening in the School Hall on Wednesday night next. Musical items will be rendered by members, assisted by…

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Local and General. Church Flooded

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 4

The flood waters were four or five feet deep in the little old Methodist Church at Glenthorne says the "Manning River Times." New hymn books, which had…

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Methodist Concert. Harvest Festival Effort

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 3

Coffs Harbour Methodists did hot strike a very favorable season for their annual harvest festival this year, but did very well in spite of…

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Apes Men's Vices the New Woman Must Take Her Place in Church Bathurst

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 5

In the course of a sermon at All Saints' Cathedral last night, the Bishop of Bathurst, Dr. Crotty, declared that the new woman who was arising was a throwback…

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Shilling for Attending Church

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 4

Jankyn Smith, who died in 1481, provided under his will that a sermon should be preached once a year in commemoration of benefactors of his town of Bury…

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Church of England Social

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 2

In spite of the unfavorable weather a fair number of town and district residents attended the Church of England social in the Memorial Hall on…

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Church of England Ball

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 February 1929 · page 4

A grand plain and fancy dress ball, in aid of Church of England funds, is to be held in the Fitzroy Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday, May 15 and 16…

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Mission to England Bruce Denies Report. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 5

The Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, to-day denied, that a mission of business men would bo sent from Australia to Britain, on the same terms as the British Economic…

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Methodist Conference Rev. W. E. Bennett, President. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 5

The Rev. W. E. Bennett, principal of Leigh Theological College. was to-night elected president of the Methodist Conference. He received 188 votes, while…

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Local and General. Catholic Tennis Club

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 3

Coffs Catholic Tennis Club has been re-formed for the coming season. Mr. J. Gralton was elected president, Mr. W. J. Clear secretary and Mr…

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