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Churches, 1944

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Girl Guides At Church Parade

Maitland Mercury · Monday 20 March 1944 · page 3

First West Maitland Giri Guides Company attended a church parade at the Presbyterian Church, West Maitland.,…

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Methodist Harvest Festival

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 March 1944 · page 3

Large congregations attended the services of thanksgiving held in the West Maitland Methodist Church on Sunday…

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Mission Exhibition At Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 March 1944 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Tuesday. — The Bishop of Newcastle, Right Rev. F. de Witt Batty, this afternoon opened the Missionary Exhibition…

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Dance In Aid of Church Funds

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 March 1944 · page 2

BRANXTON: The euchre party and dance held in the School of Arts in aid of the funds of St. Brigid’s Roman Catholic School…

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Life and Mission of Elijah

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 March 1944 · page 4

Continuing his course of addresses [?] the life and mission of Elijah, the Rev. Carlos Stretch, Rector of St. Paul’s, West…

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Methodist Harvest Festival Services

Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 2

Special harvest thanksgiving services will be held In the Methodist Church again on Sunday. Chaplain E. B. Wilson, a…

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Baptist Church

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 2

Special services in connection with the Annual Thanksgiving will be held at Stratford on Sunday morning and Stroud in the evening. Rev. F…

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Mr. Churchill to Broadcast

Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 2

LONDON March 33.—Mr. Churchill will broadcast over the BBG at 6 a.m. on Monday (eastern Australian time)…

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The Churches To-morrow’s Services

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 25 March 1944 · page 2

In the East Maitland Methodist Circuit the services at Largs, 9.45 a.m., East Maitland 11 a.m., and Bolwarra 3 p.m., will be can…

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Presbyterian Tea Meeting And Concert

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 March 1944 · page 2

St. Stephen’s school hall was the scene of a veritable gathering of the Clans on Saturday night, when the annual tea meeting and…

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Catholic Appeal to Spare Rome

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 March 1944 · page 2

A resolution appealing to the belligerents to save Rome from the destruction that has been the lot of so many beautiful cities…

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Mr. Churchill Pleased With Progress of War “Good News Has Far Outweighed the Bad” (Australian Associated Press)

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 March 1944 · page 1

LONDON March 26—It was possible that the war in the Pacific might progress more rapidly than was formerly thought likely, declared the Prime Minister, Mr…

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Congregational Church Conference

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 March 1944 · page 2

Delegates from all the Congregational Churches in the north were present at a meeting of the Northern Association of…

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Miller Built Fortune From Single Windmill Gave Church £2,000,00

Singleton Argus · Monday 27 March 1944 · page 4

Thirty sacks of flour a week was the output of Joe Rank's windmill. He bought it when he was 21. Recently Joseph Rank died, at 89, head…

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Mr. Churchill Reviews the War "Good News Outweighs Bad News"

Singleton Argus · Monday 27 March 1944 · page 1

It is possible the war in the Pacific may progress more rapidly than was formerly thought possible, declared Mr Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, in a brodacast over the B.B.C in which he said the…

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Methodist Church Harvest Services

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 3

Harvest Thanksgiving Services were continues in the West Maitland Methodist Church on Sunday, when Chaplain E. H. Wilson,…

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Points from Churchill's Speech

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 1

In his world-wide broadcast on Sunday night from London, Mr. Churchill paid a great tribute to the Russian Army. He said that the Soviet Army…

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St. Matthias' Church News

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 4

Services befitting Palm Sunday will be held in St. Matthias' Church, Denman, on Sunday next, April 2, at 7.30 a.m. and 11 a.m. (Eucharist). Other…

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Thalaba Baptist Church Thanksgiving Sevrice

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 1

A brief pastoral letter in which stress was laid upon the goodness of God as evidenced in the present bountiful harvest resulted in folk…

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"Hour of Greatest Effort Nears" Mr. Churchill's Invasion Hint

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 4

"The hour of the Allies' greatest effort and action is approaching," said the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) in a world…

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