King Jazz Reigns At Auburn District Hospital
A carnival night at Auburn District Hospital’s Town Hall features the Sydney Fire Brigade Orchestra and Webber's One Big Store sponsorship for a Modern Night. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. Briggs, Crockford, Moodie, Leake, Gamble, Fowler, Watsford, and hospital staff and nurses, all reveling in a festive 1983 style cabaret and dance.
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Ares Town
Emiles
Jazs
Auburn District Hospital
Webber's
Sydney Fire Brigade Orchestra
A. T. Briggs
H. H. Crockford
P. Moodle
W. Furlong
P. H. Leake
R. Gamble
C. Fowler
Mollie Bell
Sheila Eighery
Ivor Chisholm
Drs
Fatal Motorcycle Crash Claims Lidcombe Teen
A motorcycle carrying a 17 year old pillion passenger from Lidcombe collided with a cart at Parramatta Road and Sutherland Street Auburn on Saturday. Frank Schofield died soon after at St Josephs Hospital. The pillion rider Ronald Miles, 18, and the cart driver were injured and hospitalized. Schofield suffered a severely fractured skull.
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Frank Schofield
John Street
Lidcombe
Parramatta Road
Sutherland Street
Auburn
St. Joseph's Hospital
Parramatta
Schofield
Ronald Miles
Francis Street
Auburn Council Calls Public Meeting On Medical Officer Need
At a council meeting Ald. T. Cheetham was asked to convene a public meeting urging government appointment of a resident medical officer for distressed folk. The request came from the Mayor's Distress Fund committee.
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Auburn
Ald. T. Cheetham
Neresalty
Second district motor cyclist fatality reports
The driver Leonard Barrett of Rutherland Street was thrown to the ground in a collision and received treatment at St. Joseph's Hospital where Miles remained in danger. This marks a second local fatality in a week involving motor cyclists with pillion riders. Previously Jack Dickson of Prince's Highway Arncliffe died at Hilla, while pillion passenger Tierney of 43 Northcote Street is listed at St. Joseph's Hospital.
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Leonard Barrett
Rutherland Street
St. Joseph's Hospital
Miles
Jack Dickson
Prince's Highway
Arncliffe
Hila
Noeleen Crowned Queen at Lidcombe Gala Week
A crowded Arcadia Theatre in Lidcombe witnessed the Lidcombe Gala Week Queen competition finale. Noeleen Gunnery was crowned by Bishop Straughen amid a ceremonial procession and period costumes to raise funds for the sick and needy.
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Straughen
Noeleen
Lidcombe
Noeleen Gunnery
Arcadia Theatre
Lidombe
Harry Wilkie
Harry
Dramatis Personnae
Joyce Sweeting
Merida Fay
Guy Straughen
Harry Metcalfe
Marie Hurst
Iris Phillips
Doreen Kelly
Mary Dahien
Lucy Lewis
Metcalfe
Jim Richardson
Coronation Pageant Delights Audience in Royal Court Style
A lively pageant featured a charming bishop and lord figures in flowing robes. The queen and princesses received gifts including a gold wristlet watch and framed photographs. Mayor Alderman Phillips presented £500 to charities as crowds cheered the royal crowd scene.
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Straughen
Esses
Phillips
Sit Lon
Council debate over Crimes Act remark sparks aid drive
Alderman Lamb denounces police warnings as convicts in Wyatt Park. Auburn Council grants funds to several relief societies including Lidcombe Benevolent Society and Medical Relief, amid a ceremony featuring Miss Phyl Russell and Mrs Hoban. The meeting supported a July 18 public session on the Dole scheme and government relief requests.
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Wyatt Park
Ald. Lamb
Auburn Council
Unemployed Workers’ Movement
Auburn
Ald. Wilson
Cliseus
Lidcombe
Phyl Russell
Hoban
Tragic Surf Ambush: Son Dies Trying to Save Father at Creel Head
Clarence Mitchell 22 leaped into raging sea off Creel Head near Palm Beach to save his father Thomas Michell 53. Both men drowned when line snapped. Clarence’s body found on a rock after a daylong search. Four others witnessed the tragedy and police report eight drownings at the spot in ten years.
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Creel Head
Palm Beach
Clarence John Mitchell
Thomas William Gerald Michell
Clarence
Douglas
Whale Beach
Dartbrook Road
Auturn
Ste. Strip
Ted
J. W. Webster
John
Alfred
Webster
Clarence Mitchell
Mitchell
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King Jazz
Pillion
Bie Ly
Victor Dog Biscuits
R Mere
Hedges
Station Road
BOR
Elsie Wood
Joyce Lamerton
Guesn
Dr. Kor
Ambu
Lamb and
Lidcombe Dole
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