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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 05, 1937
Page
2
The school choir seeks support for a Wagga trip to contest the elmteddfod. Parents already funded 12 competitors with more needed to reach required strength. Canberra Male Choir donated £2 2s to help develop school musical training and was thanked.
A Park Infants School evening fundraiser organised by mothers raised funds and featured Crazy Whist and bridge with prizes donated by Mrs. W Emerton and others. The event included dancing, readings for Wattle Day, and a vote of thanks from Mr J Fitchey. Monthly Taranta School tests listed top performers Judith Adamson Martin Frederiksen Joyce Rockiey and Moya Smith in Class 2 and Hilary Wilson Ken Hartes in Class 1A.
District Scout notes announce no District Court of Honour this month and outline Wolf Cubs aims Do Your Best motto and tests. Canberra Rover Crew report three FG reps excelled in Ski Spark at Mt Bogong Vic weather ideal for skiing with 32 crews present. Third Canberra notes initiation ceremony held.
Preparations for an unveiling by Dr C Norwood at the Grammar School advance. Bishop Burgman of Goulburn to attend the unveiling and administer Gantstation to boys in the School Chapel on August 18. Term examinations start next Monday and last about two weeks. A Saturday match drew praise as the fields are readied for grass sowing and improvements.
A Canberra Times contest asks students to explain the significance of Hyperion and the Everlasting Mercy and other items in 1937. Entries must be brief up to 30 words per explanation, due by August 27, 1937.
John and Elisabeth tire of toys as rain lasts. Their mother plans a surprise, later promising a snowy day. The children, Rover, Peter, Barbara, and Jean join in making toffee, then enjoy a fresh white world next morning. They build a snowman, sled, and game with family at home.
The Canberra Calendar lists varied dates and events from August entries, noting figures such as Sir Isaac Isaacs and Isaac Walton, with milestones including monarchist actions in Madrid, observatory foundations, and battles. It presents a dense, fragmentary chronicle of historical markers, anniversaries, and political moments spanning centuries.
A garbled OCR passage lists figures from Shakespeare Wordsworth and Wilde, noting Othello and The Happy Warrior, mentions the Unknown Warrior buried in Westminster Abbey, and cites other figures such as Triomphe Ave, Old Jolyon, and a piece on Gale Worthy. It also references Charles Rowdees novel The Cloister and the Hearth, Piglet from Winnie the Pooh, and Hanrahan from a poem, with attributions to John J. O Beien and Arya Hanrahan.
A crowd watched an amateur magician demonstrate a ring drop using a bottle as a prop. The act referenced classic works by Dickens, Gilbert and Sullivan, and other authors, with each cue guiding the ring’s descent along a thread and through a musical overtone.
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