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Hunter Valley · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1944

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Concert at . St. Joseph’s Lochinvar

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1944 · page 4

The College Hall at St Joseph’s, Loehinvar, was filled to overflowing for the students’ concert on Thursday evening. A…

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Kurri Business Men’s Concert

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1944 · page 4

KURRI Sat.— A grand concert, presented by Kurri Business Hen’s Club, in the King’s Theatre, was largely attended. The…

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Juvenile Dance for Red Cross

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 3

BRANXTON Monday — About 100 children and a large number of parents and friends attended the juvenile dance conducted in…

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Dance At Lochinvar

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 May 1944 · page 3

A dance and euchre party, organised by the Lochinvar Patriotic Committee, will be held in the Lochinvar School of Arts on…

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Dance for Rodeo

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 9 May 1944 · page 2

On Friday night last at the James Theatre a dance was held to raise funds for the Red Cross Rodeo. The bitter wind greatly handicapped the…

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James Theatre "Little Nellie Kelly"

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 9 May 1944 · page 2

With Judy Garland in hex first solo starring role, "Little Nellie Kelly,", filmisation of the famed G. M. Cohan musical hit, will be showing on…

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Kurri Business Men. £72 From Concert

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 May 1944 · page 2

It was reported to Kurri Kurri Business Men's Club last night that as a result of a recent concert £72 was raised. As a result, Kurri Red Cross, Kurri…

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First Victory Loan Rally Concert Party Raises £1650

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 9 May 1944 · page 2

The attendance at the street rally on Saturday night for the 1st Victory Loan was good, the programme of items submitted by the visiting artists…

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£72 From Concert At Kurri

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 May 1944 · page 3

KURRI Tues.—It was reported to a meeting of Kurri Kurri Business Men’s Club last night that £72 was raised as a result of a…

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Dance and Euchre AT Branxton `

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 4

BRANXTON Wed. — About 200 attended the monthly dance and euchre held in the School of Arts in aid of the funds of the…

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Comforts Fund Dance At Town Hall

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 2

A dance will be held to the West Maitland Town Hall to-night, proceeds being in aid of the West Maitland branch of the…

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Pictures From the World at War

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 4

Their anti-aircraft guns pointing against the sky, U.S. L.S.T. landing ship-tank) vessels carrying supplies for American forces fighting the Japanese on Bougainville, are unloaded on a beach on the northern Solomons island in the South Pacific…

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Red Cross Ball At East Maitland

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 2

Members of the East Maitland Red Cross Younger Set will conduct a ball in the Literary Institute. East Maitland, on Friday…

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Kurri Brass Band

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 3

Kurri Kuri'i Brass Hand will again hold a contest at Kurri in October, on Sydney Eight Hour week-end. Last year this contest was inaugurated and…

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James Theatre

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 2

On Saturday at the James Theatre Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will present Johnny-Weissmuller in "Tarzan's New York Adventure," with Maureen…

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Died in Theatre

Maitland Mercury · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Friday—Walter Henry Shawcross. 66, Alfred-st., Newcastle, collapsed and died in the Victoria Theatre late…

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Pictures From the World at War

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 3

"SOFTENING" THE GERMANS ON THE ITALIAN FRONT. A NIGHT ACTION PICTURE. Picture shows 25 pdr. self-propelled guns operating from a captured aerodrome on the Italian front. The wreckage of many Italan and…

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Concert in Aid of Fellowship

Maitland Mercury · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 4

SINGLETON Fri.—There was a very large attendance at the concert held in the All Saints’ Parish Hal, in aid of the…

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Concert in Parish Hall Large and Appreciative Audience

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 2

There was a large attendance In AH Saints' Parish Hall on Wednesday night, the occasion being a concert by Singleton…

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Popular Dance Band at E.m

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 3

The large attendance at the Trocadero dance at the Literary Institute, East Maitland. on Saturday night last, was more than delighted…

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