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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 05, 1964
Page
8
The appeal will be the principal feature of the programme of the Inter church event centering on unity and community service across participating churches. Details remain to be announced for the upcoming gathering.
Catholic Womens League plans the first Christmas party next Wednesday at St Bede's School Assembly Hall Red Hill. The programme includes a Cinderella skit a Roaring Twenties leap and a Patrician Plovers performance with unbreakable crockery on display. About 60 women are expected including 40 branch members.
The Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn the Right Rev Red. Clements will preach at a centenary service at St Philip's Ruiningore tomorrow. Several hundred worshipers expected as the church marks 100 years since foundation stone laid by Bishop Mesac Thomas.
The Childrens' Remand Shelter in Canberra seeks married couples for Supervisor and Deputy Matron roles overseeing boys and girls. Salaries range from £1176 to £1228 and £929 to £984 per annum with a £100 allowance, plus furnished quarters, meals, six weeks leave, and long service sick leave. Applications due by 17 December 1964 to the Department of the Interior Canberra.
The New Guinea Furey Wiley Choir from Jones Missionary College Rambubu will tour 14 Australian centers including a Canberra concert on December 21 at Pinheany School assembly hall. Director Pastor R A Vince notes two aims: showcase Christian mission impact and strengthen youth exchange with the South Pacific. The choir, formed six years ago by Douglas Martin, trains at Jones College near Rambubu and travels with lapels Adventist attire to Melbourne for the South Pacific Youth Congress.
A scanned compilation of numerous Canberra churches detailing service times and affiliations. It lists Holy Communion practices, confession periods, mass schedules, and worship times for multiple parishes including St John the Baptist, Michael’s, Holy Cross, St Patrick’s, and Christ Church, with notes on primary schools, catechism, prayer meetings, and family services.
The early 20th century plan to create a national rose garden in Canberra linked NSW rose society leaders with the Territory’s administration. By 1930s two 4 acre sections near Parliament became a national design emphasizing Australian bred roses, with 2412 plants sourced from across states.
Last weekend the owners Caplain and Mrs Gr Watson and Mr and Mrs W OD Hardy opened their prize gardens to the public and collected gifts for Koomarri. After two days hundreds of visitors including some from Brisbane viewed the gardens, boosting Koomarri School by seven pounds.
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