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Southern Highlands · Churches

Churches, 1927

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Presbyterian Gymkhana

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 2

The annual Gymkhana at Moss Vale in aid of the Presbyterian Church will be held on Saturday next, 8th December. As usual, the…

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Local Items. Methodist Church

The Southern Mail · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 2
Also in Robertson Mail

Morning service at Bowral Methodist Church on Sunday will be conducted by the Rev. J. W. Dains at 11 o'clock, and the Rev S. McKibbin…

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Presbyterian Gymkhana

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 2

The threatening weather and intermittent showers on Saturday prevented a good many intending competitors (and, doubles…

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Presbyterian Gymkhana

The Southern Mail · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 1

The threatening weather and intermittent showers on Saturday prevented a good many from being present in the afternoon at the gymkhana…

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Presbyterian Church Continental. a Successful Function

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 2

UNDER rather a heavy, dull, and threatening sky, on Wednesday. January 5th the annual continental (in connection with the Presbyterian…

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New Convent Opened at Mittagong. Archbishop Kelly on Catholic Schools. the Work of the Sisters of St. Joseph

Robertson Mail · Tuesday 18 January 1927 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

Sixty years ago, in South Australia, a devout Catholic woman saw the need that then existed for the education of poor children. To this work…

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New Convent. Opened at Mittagong Archbishop Kelly on Catholic Schools. the Work of the Sisters of St. Joseph

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 2

Sixty years, ago, in South Australia, a devout Catholic woman saw the need that then existed for the education of poor children. To this…

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In the Churches

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 26 April 1927 · page 2
Also in Robertson Mail

Rev. Father Cusack delivered an eloquent panegyric at the morning services at Mittagong and Bowral on Sunday, and on Monday a Requiem…

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Industrial Mission. a Sugar Process Investigated. New Orleans, June 25

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 29 June 1927 · page 4

The Commonwealth Industrial Mission to day inspected a new process of refining sugar which is claimed to save 50 per cent of present costs. The…

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British and Foreign Bible Society. Mission Work in Persia and China. Girls Married at Twelve

Robertson Mail · Friday 1 July 1927 · page 4
Also in The Southern Mail

On Thursday afternoon last, in a cozy room behind the Masonic Temple very kindly lent for the occasion, a meeting was held in connection with…

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Of Local Interest. Catholic Dance

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 26 July 1927 · page 2
Also in Robertson Mail

Prize winners at the Catholic dance last week were:— Old-time waltz, Mr. L. Payne and Mrs. Pritzler; balloon dance, Mr. and Mrs. R…

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Church News. (Fron St. John's paper)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 30 July 1927 · page 3

Thanks to thegenerosity of Mr. A. H. Garraway the Church is now possessed of avery fine car, the having presented an Oldsmobile Six to the…

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A Church Built on 1,000,000 Piles

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 August 1927 · page 4

Venice, the wonderful city whose streets are canals, and where a boat is more useful than a horse, possesses one of the most curious…

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Churchman Against Prohibition. (Published by Arrangement.)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 August 1927 · page 4

"Retreat from a stand for Prohibition to a policy of voluntary temperance is favoured by a great majority of protestant episcopal clergymen who…

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Church Immigration Work

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 13 September 1927 · page 4

Bowral was visited during the weekend by Mr. R. S. Byrnes, secretary of the Presbyterian Immigration Department and organiser of the…

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