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Hunter Valley · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1941

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MUSWELLBROOK Success Of The Catholic Ball Popular Man Muswellbrook

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 July 1941 · page 3

As [?]elpated the annual Mu[?] wallbrook catholic Ball proved one of the social successes of the dancing season, the hall having been…

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Dance for Orphanage

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 July 1941 · page 3

The funds for the Murray-Dwyer Orphanage will benefit from a dance held last night at the Masonic Hall, Newcastle. About 100 guests…

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Police Orchestra Amounts Raised For Patriotic Purposes

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 July 1941 · page 4

On Tuesday, July 22, 1941, the New South Wales Police Orchestra will visit West Maitland and will supply the music for the Police Ball to be…

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“Y Worry” Dance Club Function

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 July 1941 · page 5

The fifth of a series of weekly dances will be conducted by the “ Y Worry” Club in the main West Maitland Town Hail to-morrow night…

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Farewell Dance 2/4th Pioneer Battalion

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 July 1941 · page 4

Member of the 2/4th Pioneer Battallan, now in camp at Greta, will hold a [?] dance on Monday. night next in the West Maitland Town…

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Swing Rhythm Dance At Town Hall

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 July 1941 · page 8

A pleasant evening was spent by a [?] attended the Swing Rhythm Club’s dance at the West Maitland Town Hall. It was in the form of a gold…

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War Pictures Maitland Town Display Well Worth Seeing

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 July 1941 · page 4

Opening the official exhibition war photographs oil display at the West Maitland Town pall last night tie Mayor (Ald. A. E…

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Central Theatre Programme for Saturday and Monday 'Young Dr. Kildare Goes Home'

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 10 July 1941 · page 3

Artists: Lew Ayres as Dr. Kildare, Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Gillespie, Laraine Day as Mary, Nat Pendleton as Wayman The latest thrilling story of the series…

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Boys of the Police Orchestra

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 July 1941 · page 2

On the 23rd instant we will be stormed by the boys of the Police Orchestra, who are arriving to provide music for the Grand Police Ball to…

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The Ball

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 July 1941 · page 1

At a very large and representative meeting of the Ball Committee it was decided to hold a carnival ball; tickets to be 4/ and 3/…

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Basket Ball

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 July 1941 · page 6

To-morrow Basket Ball matches will lie played between teams from Newcastle and teams from the Kurri district. The local team will be made…

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Juvenile Ball

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 July 1941 · page 5

The juvenile ball which was held in conjunction with the annual Catholic ball proved the outstanding and most successful of its kind for the present…

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Tillegra Patriotic Dance

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 July 1941 · page 2

A dance will be held in Tillegra Hall on Saturday, 19th, in aid of patriotic funds. Supper will be provided and the admission charges are 1/6…

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East Maitland Dance

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 July 1941 · page 4

The Kamarinskaia dance to held in the Literary Institute East Maitland to morrow night promises to be is successful as the recent…

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James Theatre

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 July 1941 · page 2

For Saturday night the attraction will be "Curtain Call," presented by RKO Radio, with Barbara Read Allan Mowbray and Helen Vinson. Columbia…

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Late War Pictures

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 July 1941 · page 8

NEW BRITISH SHIP'S COMBAT U-BOAT MENACE.—Corvettes, British warships of a new type, carry a crew of 50 to 60 and are armed with the same anti-submarine weapons as destroyers. "Action Stations" aboard a corvette. A U-boat has been detected and the 4" gun is loaded in readiness…

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The War in Pictures

Singleton Argus · Friday 11 July 1941 · page 3

Torpedoes (known in the British services as "tin fish") are seen on trolleys on their way to be loaded on British Air Force Coastal command aircraft. It was by torpedo-carrying aircraft that Britain crippled the Italian fleet at Taranto…

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Auxiliary Ball Abermain

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 July 1941 · page 6

The Kurri Kurri District Hospital is expected to benefit between £35 and £40 as a result of the annual ball conducted at Abermain on…

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Ambulance Ball Pleasing Function

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 July 1941 · page 2

The ball in aid of the funds of Dungog Ambulance, held last week in the James Theatre, was a pleasant function, although the patronage on…

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Anglican Ball Debutantes Presented At Kurri

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 July 1941 · page 5

KURRI Friday More than 500 attended St. Paul’s Church of England Ball held in the Ambulance Hall Kurri Kurri last night…

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