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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1950

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Police Fail To Find Parents Of Boy (3) Left In Theatre

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY: All efforts by detectives and women police to identify a three-year-old boy found, wandering in the Capitol Theatre last night and to locate his relatives have failed. Wrapped in police overcoats,…

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Pin Lighting for Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 2

Newcastle Council Works Committee will recommend that approval be given to Newcastle Theatres Pty. Ltd. to replace…

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Child Found In Theatre; Mother Sought

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police have not traced the mother of a boy, aged four years and 10 months, who was found wandering in the Capitol…

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Preparing For The Ball

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 6

Eleven members of the Younger Set will present a hula ballet during the ball. The solo dancer is Miss Sylvia Williams. Others are…

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Mayoral Ball on May 31

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 12

The State Governor (Lieut. - Gen. Northcott) will receive the debutantes at the Mayoral Ball at the…

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Adamstown Mothers' Club Concert

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 7

Adamstown Infants' School Mothers' Club held a successful concert at the Church of England Hall, Adamstown,…

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Belmont Band Contest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 6

The Governor (General Northcott) has been asked to open the Belmont Band Festival, which will be held on the Belmont Sports…

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Band Festival at Belmont in June

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 4

The State Governor (Lieut-General Northcott) has been invited to open a band festival which will be held at Belmont on June 11 and 12. More than 500 bandsmen…

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Women Fainted When Smoke Filled Theatre

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE. — Several women fainted and many members of the audience rushed to the foyer when smoke filled the…

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Stockton School Aid Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 4

A concert conducted by the Women's Auxiliary of the Stockton Parents and Citizens' Association was held in the Masonic Hall…

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Competition Winner At Club Concert

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 4

The Music Lovers' Club concert on Monday, May 8, will be held in the Central Methodist Mission Hall. The guest artists…

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Band Funeral For Mrs. M. A. Brown

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 2

Mrs. M. A. Brown, one of Merewether's oldest residents, died this morning, aged 85 years…

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Spent A Week At The Pictures "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, May 5.—For a week Ralph Ballinger, of Corning, New York, was missing from his home. His parents were distracted,…

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Band Funeral For Mrs. M. Brown

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 2

Representatives of bands of the Newcastle district attended the funeral of Mrs. Mary Brown which left her home in…

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Happiness Club Ball, June 19

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 8

When Mrs. J. Stelzer. founder of the Happiness Club 'organisation in New South Wales and its president for many…

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Wrestler Has Also Been in Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 8

Karl Davis, who in wrestling circles is known as "Killer" and who will meet Joe Campbell at Newcastle Stadium to-night, also…

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Tearful Mother Tells Why She Left Boy In Theatre

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY: In tears, penniless and with no one to meet her, 22-year-old Mrs. Claire Hutchinson, who left her child in the Capitol Theatre last week, walked out of Darlinghurst Reception House today. The Lunacy Court had just…

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May Queen Crowning At Ball

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 May 1950 · page 1

The winning May Queen, Miss Beverley Muldoon, being crowned by Mrs. Griffiths, wife of Mr. C. E. Griffiths, M.H.R., at the…

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Church Ball Door Takings £106

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 May 1950 · page 4

Door takings at the annual Fellowship Ball in aid of the Church of England at Dungog, were £106. Ten debutantes were presented…

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In Brief Lost Ball Cost Four Lives Recruits In N.Z. Have Big Feet

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 May 1950 · page 8

Eighteen-year-old recruits, going into camp at Auckland for military training, have extraordinarily large feet. The quartermaster found most boys wanted size 10, 11 or even 12, and…

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