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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1951

320 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 13 of 16

Surf Club Ball At Ulmarra

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 October 1951 · page 2

ULMARRA.--A colourful sketch depicting the Woolgoolga Surf beach across the back stage of…

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Upper Orara Annual Hall Ball

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1951 · page 4

At the annual ball in aid of Upper Orara Public Hall. Miss Pam Kelly was chosen Belle of the Ball. The choice of the…

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Back to Childhood Cabaret Ball

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1951 · page 1

"Bright" hardly describes the Cabaret Ball organised by the social commitee of the ExService Men and Women's…

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Princess To Attend Hospital Aid Ball

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 October 1951 · page 1

LONDON, Mon. (AAP).-- Princess Margaret will visit Paris in November to attend a gala ball in aid of…

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Leading Soloist To Visit Grafton With Orchestra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 October 1951 · page 2

Bass-baritone Noel Melvin, of Sydney, a prizewinner in the Sun Aria Contest in the 1951 City of…

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Far West Concert at Woolgoolga

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 October 1951 · page 4

WOOLGOOLGA. Wed. -- A concert party of six artists from Sydney presented a splendid…

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C. of E. Ball.— Debs. Present Pretty Presented To Mr. Davis Hughes, SIGHT M.L.A.

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 October 1951 · page 6

The Debutante Ball on Friday night last was again a highly successful function. Eight debutantes were presented by Mrs. Winslow,…

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Variety At Cathedral Fair Concert

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 October 1951 · page 2

Ail entertaining programme of short sketches and plays, songs and folk dances, and choral and…

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Royal Couple In Canada Had Fun At Square Dance

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 October 1951 · page 1

OTTAWA, Friday (A.A.P.). -- The Royal couple escaped from formalities and had heaps of fun at a Canadian square dance at the last function of their visit to Ottawa…

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Methodist Concert

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 October 1951 · page 2

An entertaining concert programme was staged at the final session of the Methodist flower show, in…

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School of Arts to Increase Dance Admission

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1951 · page 4

To offset the increase in musicians' fees for Saturday night dances, the School of Arts committee at its meeting…

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Cricket Ted Adams Amd Norm Munro Score Centuries Day of Good Performances with Bat and Ball

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1951 · page 8

Ted Adams (Jetty) and Norm Munro (High School) flayed the bowling in the final day's play in the opening fixtures of the Coffs Harbour and District Cricket Association's A grade competition last…

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Success at Band Contests

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 2

Two Grafton youths, Roger Coutts-Smith and Bill Tanner, now members of the Albury City Band,…

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Concert Series In Guide Hall

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 October 1951 · page 2

A big crowd of parents and friends packed the Guide Hall, Grafton, on Friday night for a series…

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Band

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 3

An invitation to attend a Band Sunday at Murwillumbah on November 25 was accepted at a meeting…

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Lucrative Rides On Health Band Wagon

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--The A.M.F. Director-General of Medical Services, Dr. F. Kingsley Norris, said to-day that the popular cry of health had produced a band wagon on which a host of hoboes and charlatans had hitch-hiked…

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Band to Appear at Grafton Festival

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 3

Coffs Harbour and District Citizens' Band will appear at the Grafton [?]acaranda Festival on Saturday next. Two buses have…

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Juvenile Ball at Upper Orara

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 7

A very successful juvenile mad hatters ball, arranged by the P & C Association was held last Friday night. Quite…

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C. of E. DEBUTANTES, 1951 Debutantes Ball

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 26 October 1951 · page 2

The following Debs. were presented to Mr. D. Hughes, M.L.A., at the recent C. of E. Debs Ball in the Agric. Hall.—(Photo by courtesy Marie Hunt Studios, Coffs Harbour). From left to Right: Leoni Grace, Bryda Sawtell, Delores Munro, Marlene Inskip, Mesdames Winslow and Eddleston, Rhoma Capararo, Barbara Burbidge, Francis Ponsonby, Colleen…

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Concert Huge Success

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 26 October 1951 · page 1

The C.W.A. concert held last Friday night was a grand success. Local talent is becoming more plentiful of late and a really good show went…

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