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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Churches

Churches, 1948

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Presentations To Church Workers

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 7

COFF'S HARBOUR, -- The Church of England community at Sawtell made presentations to Mrs. H. Smith and Mrs…

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Sisters Attend Bride At St. Andrew's Church

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 April 1948 · page 4

The gown was styled with a light fitting bodice, and an off-the-shoulder swathed neckline caught with small sprays of…

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Church News Rector's Notes

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1948 · page 2

The garden party in St. John's grounds was most enjoyable. The weather was kind, the Town Band played many delightful items, and…

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Church News Rector's Notes

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 April 1948 · page 8

There will be no church service at Upper Orara on Sunday, as an Anzac Service has been arranged, to be held in the hall at 11 am. The…

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R.c. Church Centenary

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 April 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.--The Primate of All Ireland, Dr. Dalton, who was to have visited Australia for the centenary celebrations of the…

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Church Services Appeal For Triumph Of Anzac Ideal

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 April 1948 · page 2

CLARENCE River clergymen, in sermons at special Anzac Day services yesterday appealed for the triumph of the Anzac inspiration over present day difficulties. Congregations at all services…

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Aerial Tour by Food Mission

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Mon.--The British Food Mission, with representatives of the Australian Meat Board and cattle industry, to-day completed…

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Church News Rector's Notes

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 30 April 1948 · page 5

Sawtell Union Church was crowded out for the Anzac Service and there was a good congregation in St. John's at night. As one newspaper…

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Children's Part In Church Celebrations

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 May 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- Fifteen thousand pupils from Melbourne' Catholic schools filled all available space at the…

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Church News Rector's Notes

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 7 May 1948 · page 5

Sunday's cyclone certainly upset arrangements. The town, services were duly held, together with St. John's SS but the country services…

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Mr. Churchill Rescues Union Talks

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 1

THE HAGUE, Tuesday (A.A.P.).-- Mr. Churchill was called on to rescue and to secure unanimity from the Congress of Europe's fifth plenary session in possing…

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Friends Decorate Church

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 May 1948 · page 4

Friends decorated the Church of England, Ulmarra, with dahlias when Betty, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs…

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Church News Rector's Notes

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 2

Empire Youth Sunday was well observed, many children and the Cub Pack attending the Pilgrimage of Youth, while…

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Goodwill Mission To S. East Asia

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 May 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Sunday.-- Mr. McMahon Ball, former Australian representative on the Allied Council in Japan, will head a special goodwill mission on a five weeks' tour of South-East Asia, to organise the Commonwealth Government's programme…

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Methodist Conference

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.-- The first Methodist conference in 16 years assembled in Sydney to-day. The conference immediately went into…

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Church Decorated By Sisters Of Mercy

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 2

The Sisters of Mercy, Grafton, decorated St. Mary's Church, for the wedding of Joyce, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Sutton, of Turf…

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Church News Rector's Notes

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 21 May 1948 · page 6

The chief news concerns the formation of a Guild at Sawtell. A well attended and enthusiastic meeting was held at…

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Church Expresses "Grief And Concern"

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 May 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Thurs., (A.A.P.).--The General Assembly, of the Free Church of Scotland, meeting in Edinburgh has sent to the…

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Women Have Important Part In Church Work

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 May 1948 · page 2

WOMEN would always at South Grafton play a great part in the work of church and other organisations, declared Mr. C. G. Wingfield, M.L.A., in officially opening the St. Stephen's Presbyterian annual May Fair at the School of Arts, South Grafton,…

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World Church TO Be Formed

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 May 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY. Sunday.--An event as important as the discovery of atomie energy will be the formation in Amsterdam next August of a World Church to mobilise…

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