Coronation Ball Draws Crowd at Burra Town Hall
The first unofficial Coronation Ball was held at Burra Town Hall to aid St. Joseph's Church. A £60 profit after expenses, festive red, white and blue decor, Australian flag, Union Jack, and a Queen Elizabeth I orb framed the event. Supper was varied and tasty, with Mary Preiss Tezecker Pauline Dowd and Mrs M Williams handling arrangements. Peter Murphy Tom Lynch led the organizing, P J Byrne sold tickets, Morris Williams kept the door, and the night closed at 1.30 am with a Medley and the National Anthem.
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Burra Town Hall
St. Joseph's RO
Fie
K. Murphy
Mary Preiss
Tezecker
Pauline Dowd
M. Willams
P. J. Byrne
Morris Willams
Peter Murphy
Tom Lynch
Film Evening for Burra School By South Australian Forests
A film evening in the Town Hall on Tuesday 26 May raised funds for Burra Primary School with a crowd mostly of children. The Welfare Club benefited £1 from admission fees, while the film Romance in the Pines educated on pine growth and uses, followed by comedies and cartoons.
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Burra
South Australian Perpetual Forests, Ltd
Welfare Club
Fim
Hilly
S.A. Perpetual Forests Ltd
Mr Fly
Modern Robinson Crusoe Tells Of Drift And Island Life
Robert Fred Lee, a New York born adventurer, recounts weeks on a tropic island in the Chagos Archipelago after a shipwreck voyage from San Diego in 1950. He built a 21 by 4 foot boat from wreckage, sailed 1200 miles west, survived on rain water, then reached Alphonse Island before being picked up by a copra schooner and taken to Mahe.
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Robinson Crusoe
New York
Robert Fred Lee
Mahe
Tropic Island
Indian Ocean
San Diego
Chagos Archipelago
India
Lee
Mabe
Alphonse Island
Fragmentary Thought Reflects Age and Spirit
A brief, fragmentary line notes a person lacking the spirit of his age and claiming the age itself bears misery, suggesting a critique of contemporary temperament and conditions.
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Lamb and
Feas
Hicken
Ital Call
International
North Clare
Vanguard Spacemaster
Etter Vision
Veniences
Burra Motor Company
Carpenter's
Davign
E Statton & Son
Hallett
B.A
Dunlite
P.O
The
New Zealand
L Campbell
Iteel
Triden Power Dent
Trident
Loca Neptune
Bubba
D. FP
Kerr
Commercial Street
Necrowie
E. J. Affoltee & Son
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