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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1950

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Dance for Sandgate Memorial Hall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 2

Sandgate Progress Association held a New Year's Eve dance at Waratah Town Hall to raise funds to build a Memorial Progress Hall…

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City Hall Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 2

Newcastle should not be penalised for the unhappy circumstances that surrounded the removal of National Art Gallery paintings…

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Request For City Hall Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 4

The Lord Mayor of Newcastle (Ald. Quinlan) yesterday asked Mr. Hawkins, M.L.A., to do what he could to have National Art Gallery…

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Theatre Dispute Likely Over Dues For Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 2

A spokesman for employees at the Civic Theatre said yesterday A dispute was developing because of an alleged threat by the…

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Basket Ball

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 8

Registrations for the Newcastle Association men's basketball summer competition will close on Monday. Grading games for the competition…

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Park Concert Replaces "Creation"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 4

Haydn's "Creation," which was to have been presented in King Edward Park on Sunday, April 2, will be replaced by an instrumental and…

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Band To Ask For Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 5

Newcastle Ex-servicemen's and Citizen's Band would ask the Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) to help it acquire a hall or other premises…

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Wanted Princess For Dance Date

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 1

PRINCETON (New Jersey), Jan. 10. A.A.P.—Harvey Glickman, a student at Princeton University, needed a date for…

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Windsors at New Year Dance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 5

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor (right) pause on a New York dance floor to exchange New Year greetings with ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia and his Queen, Alexandra of Greece…

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Regular Park Concerts Likely

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 2

An instrumental and vocal concert in King Edward Park on Sunday afternoon, April 2, might be the beginning of regular monthly…

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Princess Astrid Leads Dance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 4

Princess Astrid, of Norway, partnered by Ensign Cadet Steinholt, leads off the Polonaise at a cadet ball in Oslo…

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Radio Pictures Of Truculent Disaster

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 4

RESCUE SHIPS over the spot where the submarine Truculent went down on Thursday night. Marker-buoy (bottom left) was released from the submarine to show her position. (Radiophoto.) WRECKED stabiliser of the submarine Truculent jammed in the badly-damaged bows of the Swedish 643-ton tanker Divina. Truculent sank in 42ft. of water in the Thames Estuary after colliding with the tanker. 65 are dead. Radio photo…

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35,000 at Adelaide Open-air Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Sunday.—Between 35,000 and 40,000 people attended the Botanic Gardens to-day for the first open-air concert by the…

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Theatre Withdraws Entertainment Tax

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY: Manager of the Tatler Theatre, Mr. Roy Darling, withdrew entertainment tax prices from all his charges today, in defiance of the Taxation Department…

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Injunction On Use Of Air, Pictures, Titles

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. Justice Herron, in the Supreme Court to-day, granted an interim injunction restraining the "Daily Telegraph"…

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¼d Rate "Would Provide City Orchestra"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 2

Newcastle City Council should strike a special rate of ¼d for the upkeep of a Newcastle symphony orchestra, the Lord Mayor (Ald…

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A.B.C. Symphony Orchestra Visits

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Subsidies dies granted by the New South Wales Government and the Sydney County Council have made possible…

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Criminal Offence To Dance Samba

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 3

BUENOS AIRES, Wed. (O.S.R.).—Over-indulgence in the samba has been made a criminal offence by the…

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Latest Pictures Of The English Scene

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 3

Pictures from the English scene. Top left: Dr. Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (centre), speaking at the Joint…

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Latest Pictures From Overseas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 3

Top left: A "Suspect" gets a rough handing at a Czech training school for dogs. The dogs are used as frontier guards. Top right: Some of 50 Perslan Air Force officers and men…

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