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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1949

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Upper Orara C.w.a. Ball

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 April 1949 · page 5

UPPER ORARA.—Blue and gold streamers radiating from the centre of the hall, where large replicas of the association's…

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Concert Programme To Aid Baths Fund

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 April 1949 · page 2

THE Grafton Baths Younger Set last night, on a barge mocred opposite the Boulevard, presented to an appreciative audience a particularly entertaining and bright concert programme entitled "Topliner."…

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Band Contest

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 1

BRISBANE, Mon.—Ipswich (Qld.) band contest results to-day included: Boys' solo under 14 years: W. Cameron…

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Grafton Boy's Success At Band Contest

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 April 1949 · page 2

IPSWICH, Tuesday.—L. Weazel, of Grafton, with 76 points, won the novice bass trombone solo at the Queensland Band…

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Jacaranda Week Band Contests

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 April 1949 · page 2

Proposals for making band contests a feature of the 1949 Jacaranda Festivals celebrations, have been discussed in…

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Fancy Dress Ball At Maclean

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 April 1949 · page 2

MACLEAN.—The annual [?]unvenile ball organised by Maclean P. and C. was well patronised. Fancy dresses were not as…

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Armidale City Band Visits Coast

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 April 1949 · page 3

Armidale City Band arrived in Grafton on Saturday night, and played an appreciated programme in Market Square…

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Grafton Band Featured at Ipswich

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 3

ONE of the biggest crowds Ipswich has over seen lined the main streets to watch a march of 38 bands competing in the queensland band contest. In this picture Drum-major Elaine Smyth leads the Grafton band down Brisbane street…

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Band To Compete In State Titles

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 April 1949 · page 3

AFTER playing in the Jacaranda contests at Grafton in November, the Grafton District Boys' Band intended to takes part in the State band championships at Bathurst in January, said the secretary (Mr. P. C. Sanders) last night…

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Sports at Wooli in Aid of Band

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 April 1949 · page 5

WOOLI.—Sports in aid of the Grafton District Boys' Band were held here on Faster Saturday. Owing to the undertain weather there was not a large…

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High Replacement Value of Band Instruments

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 April 1949 · page 2

THE book value of band instruments lost in the fire at the Grafton Showground was about £400, but the replacement value was nearer £1000, said the president (Mr. E. S. Ellem) in his report to the annual meeting of the Grafton District Boys' Band…

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No Age Limit In Grafton Band

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 April 1949 · page 3

The constitution of the Grafton District Boys Band was altered last night to change the clause relating to the age limit…

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Armidale Band Thanks Coffs

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 April 1949 · page 6

Mr. George E. Boundy, Secretary of Armidale City Band, writes:— On behalf of the members of…

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Juvenile Ball a Big Success

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 April 1949 · page 8

The heavy rain last night did not prevent a large crowd of children and parents attending the Primary School…

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Debutantes at C. of E. Ball

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 April 1949 · page 3

Sixteen debutanes will be presented to Rt. Rev. C. E. Storrs, Bishop of Grafton, at the Church of England Parish…

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Large Attendance At Old-Time Dance

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 3

About three hundred people attended the old-time dance conducted last night in the Criterion Hall, in aid of the…

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Well Balanced Sacred Concert Programme

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 May 1949 · page 2

A well balanced and appreciated sacred concert programme, arranged by Mrs. E. G. Maxted, was staged at…

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Sawtell Footballers' Ball

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 3

Sawtell footballers conducted a ball. in Bonville Reserve Hall on.Easter Monday night in order to swell the funds of…

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Boys' Band Letter to the Editor

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 2

Sir,--In the Daily Examiner" of the 27th, under the heading "Adverse Influences," a subscriber to the bands asks, "What…

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Upper Orara Ball and Presentation

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 5

Visitors from all parts of the district joined with the local footballers at a Ball held on Friday night for the…

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