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Mid North Coast · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1909

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Should Nurses Dance? a Hospital Question

Nambucca News · Friday 22 October 1909 · page 8

When Mr Rendall, M.P., for Thornbury, asked Mr Haldane in the House of Commons to explain why the nurses at Netley Hospital are not permitted to…

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Theatre and Pulpit

Nambucca News · Friday 29 October 1909 · page 8

I wonder whether the theatre is not steadily encroaching upon the domain of the pulpit and becoming in a very real and helpful way a moral and…

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Ball at South Arm

Nambucca News · Friday 29 October 1909 · page 3

Friday night last saw the South Arm quite en fete, the occasion being the dance given by the bachelors to the ladies of the…

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From the Sea. Three Pictures

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 30 October 1909 · page 6

"ViSolette Lauda" writes in the Westminster Gazette":— A great ship is cutting its fleet course through a wide expanse of…

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Tea and Concert

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 4 November 1909 · page 10

ON Wednesday a most successful tea meeting and concert took place at Warnebon, and the promoters are to be congratulated on their efforts to…

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Public School Concert

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 4 November 1909 · page 10

CANTATA " Playmates," given by the pupils of the Summer Island School, came off at Kinchela on Friday night. The weather was glorious and the…

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Young Peoples' Mission Band. Entertainment at the Good Templars' Hall

Macleay Argus · Saturday 6 November 1909 · page 14

"EXCELLENT," was the unhesitating opinion voiced by the large audience which attended the Presbyterian Cafe Charmant at the Good Templars' Hall on…

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Church of England Concert at Warneton

Macleay Argus · Saturday 6 November 1909 · page 10

ON Wednesday week a most successful tea Meeting and concert took place at Warneton, and the promoter's are to be congratulated on their efforts to provide a pleasant evening's entertainment. After…

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Kinchela. Summer Island School Concert

Macleay Argus · Saturday 6 November 1909 · page 14

CANTATA " Playmates" given by the pupils of the above school came off at Kinchela on Friday night. The weather was glorious at night, although the…

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Presbyterian Concert

Nambucca News · Friday 12 November 1909 · page 5

In the evening, after the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone in connection with the new Presbyterian Manse, a concert was held in the School of Arts…

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Gladstone Band of Hope. Special Concert

Macleay Argus · Saturday 20 November 1909 · page 6

A CONCERT under the auspices of the Gladstone Band of Hope was held on Friday, 12th November. The stage was nicely decorated with greens and…

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Kate Rooney Concert

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 25 November 1909 · page 4

The visit of this talented company to Kempsey ma a musical event of more than ordinary importance, and last evening a large and enthusiastic audience greeted the…

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Music at the Theatre Royal. Kate Rooney's Concert Company

Macleay Argus · Saturday 27 November 1909 · page 10

THE concert company organised by Miss Kate Rooney to tour Australia paid a visit to Kempsey this week and gave concerts at the Theatre Royal on…

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Convent School Concert

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 2 December 1909 · page 2

THE annual concert in connection with the Kempsey Convent School took place in the Theatre Royal on Friday evening. There was a large…

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Trusts and the Theatre

Nambucca News · Friday 3 December 1909 · page 9

So far as a trust 'tends to make the artiste a mere machine working under the "control" of and for the benefit of a "syndicate" of capitalists, it injures…

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Trusts and the Theatre

Nambucca News · Friday 3 December 1909 · page 3

So far as a trust tends to make the artiste a mere machine working under the "control" of and for the benefit of a "syndicate" of capitalists, it injures…

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District School Concert. Record Attendance at the Theatre Royal

Macleay Argus · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 3

THE West Kempsey District School Concert held on Wednesday night last must certainly be written down as an unqualified success. Despite…

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Gloucester' Public School Concert

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 14

Mr. Bridge must have had great confidence in himself and in his pupils to undertake, as ho, did, to give a children's concert so soon after his…

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The Kempsey Convent Concert. Financial and Artistic Success

Macleay Argus · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 8

DESPITE the threatening weather on Friday evening last there was standing room only at the Kempsey Theatre Royal, when a large and…

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Public School Concert

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 9 December 1909 · page 2

A CROWDED house greeted the officials and pupils of the Kempsey District School at their annual concert at the Theatre Royal on Wednesday evening…

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