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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1949

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Von Nida Defeated in Four-ball Game Sensational Burst By Graham Belle Decided Issue

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 May 1949 · page 4

Great sportsmanship was exhibited by Norman von Nida at Maitland golf links yesterday, when he and Charlie Campbell were defeated in a four ball match by professional Fred Belle and his son Graham Sefle…

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Footballers' Dance

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 1

Scone Football Club will hold a dance in the Kars Springs hall on Saturday night next. A bus will leave the P.O. corner at 7.30…

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The Theatres Palace Theatre

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 2

Concluding to-night at the Palace theatre are the films, “A Letter to Three Wives,” starring Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell and Ann…

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Coal Board Grant to Band. £304 for Instruments

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 1

Muswellbrook Band has received a grant of £304 from the Joint Coal Board for the purchase of instruments…

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Co-adjutor Bishop. To Attend Aberdeen Ball. Presentation of Debutantes

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 1

History will be made at the Aberdeen annual Catholic ball on Friday next, when for the first time a Bishop will attend a ball in the township…

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Vice-regal Ball. R.s.l. and Ladies' Auxiliary Meeting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 1

There was an attendance of over 40 members of the R.S.L. and Ladies' Auxiliary at the combined meeting on Friday night to make…

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Combined Choirs' Concert

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 1

Last year, the first Combined Choirs' concert was held and it was an outstanding success. This year it is again hoped, to…

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James Theatre "Unconquered"

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 1

The path of authorship is something which can nicely :be compared to the course of true love—both are rough. And novelist Nell H. Swanson…

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Autumn Ball at Largs

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 5

LARGS—The School of Arts was very gay when a most successful ball was held under the auspices of the Largs School of…

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50-50 Dance at Morpeth

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 4

Dick Jackson, famous blind musician, who, for years, played in Carl Thomas’ Orchestra in the famous Sydney Night Club, will…

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Local Giris To Play Ball Game Series

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 3

Singleton girl basket ball players who began the first of a series of intertown matches on Saturday are preparing for…

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Country Week Basket Ball

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 5

In Its first year of representation In Country Week basket bell games, Maitland will be represented by two teams…

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Vice-Regal Ball

Maitland Mercury · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 4

MUSWELLBROOK. Friday. — There was an attendance of over 40 members of the RSL and Ladies’ Auxiliary at a combined…

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Coal Board Grant To Band

Maitland Mercury · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 4

MUSWELLBROOK, Friday— Muswellbrook Bank has received a grant of £304 from the Joint Coal Board for the Purchase of…

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Auxiliary Ball at Branxton

Maitland Mercury · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 5

Branxton School of Arts was decorated with flowers, greenery and coloured streamers when the Branxton branch of the Women’s…

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The Theatres Palace Theatre

Maitland Mercury · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 3

Concluding to-night at the Palace theatre is the unusual him, “The Snake Pit.” a story of a patient in a meutal asylum, starring [?]…

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Local Lasses To Play Ball

Singleton Argus · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 5

Singleton girl basket ball players will meet visiting Muswellbrook teams at Singleton tomorrow when last week's drawn…

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Church of England Ball To-night

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 2

Tonight the Parish Hall will be a guy sight with young and not so young dancing the light fantastic at the Church of England annual Ball…

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Church of England Ball. Enjoyable Party

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 4

Th annual Church of England ball held on Friday last was one of the most successful parties of the 1949 dancing season…

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C.of E.Ball Breaks Attendance Record 1100 Witness Presentation of Debutantes

Singleton Argus · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 4

The crowd at the Singleton Church of England Ball at the N.A.A. Pavilion on Wednesday broke all previous local ball attendance records. Over 1100 witnessed the presentation of 30…

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