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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1950

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Canberra to Have Band Festival

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 January 1950 · page 2

A band festival, sponsored by the Canberra Chamber of Commerce and assisted by charitable organisations, is being…

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Disappointing Attendance At Taralga Hibernian Ball

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 6

The annual Hibernian Ball was held at Taralga on Boxing Night, but the attendance was disappointing…

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Taralga and District News New Year's Eve Ball at Golspie Great Success

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 6

The annual Catholic New Year's Eve Ball was held at Golspie Hall on Friday evening and a record crowd was in…

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A.b.c, Celebrity Concert for Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 3

It is with great satisfaction that the Citizens' Organising Committee for A.B.C. Celebrity Concerts announces that Goulburn has been included among the centres outside the metropolitan…

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City Band Trevor Humphries To Play "Pretty Jane"

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 1

The two main items to be played by the City Band art a Belmore Park concert on Sunday night are Gilbert and…

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"1812 Overture": A.b.c. Orchestra and A.l.h. Band to Play

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 1

Mr. Welford, representing the A. B. C., spent yesterday morning with the A.L.H. Band finalising the details in connection with the presentation of Tschaikovsky's 1812 Overture by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. in conjunction with the'…

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Sequel to Dance Night Accident at Laggan

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1

The accident which occurred at Laggan on Saturday evening, September 17, 1949, while a dance was in progress in the Laggan Hall and involving three men who were struck…

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Concerts by A.b.c

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 5

Residents interested in the forthcoming series of celebrity concerts to be conducted in Goulburn, and other country…

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A.B.C. Concerts a Drive For 500 New Members

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 5

The Celebrity Concerts Committee of the Arts Council is starting a drive for 500 members in preparation…

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Empire Theatre At the Empire

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 5

No less than 16 songs of immortal fame are heard in Warner Bros, brilliant teehnicolour offering 'MY WILD IRISH ROSE,' which…

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Show Society Will Hold Ball Second Night of Boorowa Show President's Urge For Members To V Assit Sub-Committee

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

Boorowa Show Society, at its meeting last Wednesday night, decided to again hold the Annual Ball on the…

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Junior Farmers’ Dance

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 3

A profit, of £14/-5/-. resulted from a dance held at “Edgerton,” on New Year’s Eve, in aid of the funds of the Junior Farmers’ Club…

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Celebrity Concert Box Plan To-day

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 1

The box plan for the ABC's International. Celebrity Concert series will open today (Monday, January 23). This will be the…

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Bright Atmosphere at Race Ball

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 6

Depite the fact that the race meeting, to have been held last Friday was postponed until a later date, the ball which…

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Band Contest

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 26 January 1950 · page 5

Bands from many N.S.W. centres will take part in an Albury band contest, commencing to-night and continuing until…

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Woolshed Dance

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 1

A Woolshed Dance is being held at Mr. Cyril Gorham's spacious woolshed, at "Willowmere," on Saturday night, February 25,…

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Dance Hall Raided

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE: The police raided the fashionable Copacabanca last night and seized hundreds of bottles of liquor worth about…

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Empire Theatre At the Empire

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 6

THE GREAT WALTZ," a masterpiece from M.G.M.'s Hall of Fame, has returned to the Empire Theatre. This is one film…

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Woolshed Dance

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 1

A Woolshed Dance is being held at Mr. Cyril Gorham's spacious woolshed, at "Willowmere," on Saturday night, February 25,…

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Land Line Programme By Goulburn Orchestra In 1920's

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 1

The early days of radio when land line transmissions were made from Goulburn, Sutton Forest, Newcastle, Wollongong and Kosciusko are recalled in a 1926 edition of "Wireless…

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