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Churches, 1918

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The Church and Enemy Aliens

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 24 April 1918 · page 3

At the Easter meeting of the Church of England, Wollongong, Miss M. Lee moved that for the duration of the war no alien of enemy birth…

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Official Opening of the New Convent School and Parish Hall. a Big Success. Collection Totals 6109

The Nowra Leader · Friday 26 April 1918 · page 4

On Sunday forenoon last the official opening of the new Convent School and Parish Hall took place, His Grace Archbishop Kelly, performing the…

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All Saints' Church, Nowra. Anzac Sunday Services

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 1 May 1918 · page 7

The Anzac services in All Saints' Church on Sunday were most impressive, and good congregations attended both in the morning and…

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Presbyterian

Southern Star · Wednesday 8 May 1918 · page 2

Mr James, Inspector of Schools, now in charge of Bega district, was apparently highly thought of by the teachers in his former district, which…

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St. John's Church

The Bega Budget · Saturday 11 May 1918 · page 2

The annual vestry meeting of the parishioners of St. John's Church was held in the Parish Hall on Wednesday evening. The…

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R.C. Church Ball at Kangaroo Valley

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1918 · page 1

The annual ball in aid of the funds of the K. V. R. C. Church was held in the National Hall on Wednesday, May 1st, and was a success both…

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St. John’s Church

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1918 · page 2

The annual vestry meeting of the parishioners of St. John’s Church was held in the Parish Hall on Wednesday evening. The…

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St. John's Church

Southern Star · Saturday 18 May 1918 · page 2

The annual vestry meeting of the parishioners of St. John's Church was held in the Parish Hall on Wednesday of last week. Rev. Dore Bryant…

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Methodist Prize Presentation

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 29 May 1918 · page 1

The Methodist school was crowded with parents and children on Tuesday, 21st inst., for the annual distribution of prizes. For two years the…

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Methodist Concert

The Bega Budget · Saturday 1 June 1918 · page 2
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A concert held in the Bega Methodist Church on Tuesday evening under the auspices of the choir attracted a packed…

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Catholic or Protestant Custody. Two Infants and Bishop Stonkwigg. Mr. Justice Streets Interesting Decision

The Nowra Leader · Friday 7 June 1918 · page 3

A legal battle as to whether the two infant children of Ambrose William Hargraves, who was killed in France, should be reared in the Protestant…

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Riot in a Church

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 8 June 1918 · page 1

A telegram from Orange to the "Sun," on Thursday, says:— The Rev. T. Roseby, Congregational minister at Orange, who has been…

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Nowra Catholic Y. M. Club

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 June 1918 · page 1

The Nowra Catholic Club is determined to be a very live body. Although established only a few months, it already possesses a new billiard…

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Church of England Parish Motor Car

The Cobargo Chronicle · Saturday 13 July 1918 · page 2

Mr. W. F. Richards, the town col lector in connection with the proposed purchase of a motor car for the Church of England minister, says that the…

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Church and Labor

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 July 1918 · page 4

In the course of his pastoral address sit St. Paul’s Anglica[?] Cathedral B[?]k[?]mpton. Bishop Halford. referring to the Labor…

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Colonel House Head of the American Mission

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 26 July 1918 · page 4

There [?] very few Americans more dis[?] and has [?] Colonel House. the head of the American mission that was recently in London. I have watched…

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Roman Catholic Schools v. Public Schools. (To the Editor.)

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 3 August 1918 · page 4

Sir,—Apropos of the taunt that "Catholicus" throws at me for bing an amateurish writer, it must follow, as the night the day, that he is a…

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Roman Catholic Schools v. Public Schools. (To the Editor)

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1918 · page 4

Sir,—Let me thank "Catholicus" for the gentlemanly and Christian spirit he adopts in admitting that he is dead beyond all hope of…

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Church of England. Motor-car to Be Bought for Parish

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 21 August 1918 · page 3

The Church of England Parish of Shoalhaven being without a catechist, the work of holding services in the outlying centres now devolves upon…

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