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Hunter Valley · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1949

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Vintage Ball To-night

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 10

The annual Vintage Ball will be held by the Pokolhin Association at Pokobin to night in Tuesday's issue of the "Engle"…

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£85 From Dance at Elderslie

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 7

ELDERSLIE: A report made to a meeting in Elderslie hall showed that £86/16/ had been raised from a dance held in support of…

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St. Patrick’s Day Concert At Town Hall

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 4

Maitland Town Hall was packed for the annual St. Patrick’s Day concert last night. The Bishop of Maitland (Most…

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C. of E. Debutantes' Ball

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 3

The St. John's C. of K. Women's Guild, Bullahdelah, have arranged the annual Debutantes' Ball for Friday, June 17th 1949. The ball is always…

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St. Andrews Concert

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 2

The repeat performance of the concert held in St. Andrew's Hall last week will take place this Friday night. A new item has been included in the…

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Presbyterian Women's Guild Stages Outstanding Concert in St. Andrew's Hall

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 1

The concert presented by the Pres-byterian Women's Guild in St. Andrew's Hall last Friday night was w[?]l attended, despite the…

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St. Patrick’s Concert Piper

Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 March 1949 · page 2

In the number, “The Piper from Over the Way,” presented during the St. Patrick’s concert last week, the part of “The Piper”…

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Vintage Ball Huge Success

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 22 March 1949 · page 5

The Vintage Ball, the event of the year at Pokothin, was another grand social and financial success. The hall was pricked to capacity…

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Show Ball

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 23 March 1949 · page 2

The Show Ball to be held on Friday night in the James Theatre promises to foe a gala event. Harry Winchester's Strollers' Dance Band…

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Dance and Euchre

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 23 March 1949 · page 7

BRANXTON: St. Brigid’s (Brazxton) Concert Party promoted a successful dance and [?]acher party held in the School…

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James Theatre

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 23 March 1949 · page 2

At the James Theatre this Tuesday night, Fox Films present "Spring-time in the Rockies," (G.E.), starring John Payne, Betty Grable and…

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Foot Ball Dungog to Play in Port Stephens League. Group 18 Grants Permission

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 23 March 1949 · page 3

At the Group 18 Conference at Krambach last Sunday, permission was granted to the Dungog Football Club to play in the Port Stephens…

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Orchestra Fund

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 6

Newcastle City Council’s Orchestra Fund now totals £3474/16/. The money represents proceeds of dances at the City Hall on…

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Vintage Ball at Pokolbin

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 4

POKOLBIN: [?]he annual vintage age [?]alt, held in Pokoibin Hall last Friday night, was an outstanding success. Door takings…

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Stagecoach [?] for Wednesday at Central Theatre

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 3

A story full of action and thrills comes to the Central Theatre, on Wednesday night next. It is called "Stagecoach" and in it [?] is a cast of favourites—Claire Trevor…

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The Band

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 6

These carnival days would be lost without a band to keep things livened up between games, and the Cessnock Band will be there on Sunday, and…

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Success of Dance

Maitland Mercury · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 3

DALWOOD: The organisers of a dance held at Elderslie recently for the appeal for Miss Joyce Sternbeck, are being…

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Basket Ball Association

Maitland Mercury · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 3

The grading of the teams of the Maitland Women’s Basket Ball Association will take place on the Park Fields on Saturday next…

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Band Recital at E.m. Park

Maitland Mercury · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 4

At King Edward Park, East Maitland, on Sunday afternoon next, a programme of brass band music, Welsh compositions…

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James Theatre

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 26 March 1949 · page 1

Hilarious doses of fun are on the bill of fare at the James Theatre next Tuesday in "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer."…

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