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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Sep 12, 1936
Page
3
Varied church schedules list Holy Communion and Evensong at Kingston St Christopher Forrest Patrick’s and other churches. Addresses include Canberra and Woollahra with times from 6 am to 9:4 am, devotions, confessions, Sunday School, sermons and choirs.
The Teelopea Park School Ex-Students Association held its first dinner at Hotel Assaile with 70 guests to honor Headmaster H. J. Filshie. Speakers praised his leadership since 1928 and the school’s rapid growth from 52 pupils to 850, with 30 teachers, reflecting Canberra’s departmental transfers and a shift to a separate secondary building.
The Church of England announces a universal call to prayer on the upcoming Sunday and the following Sunday for the League of Nations meetings. Preachers at St John’s Church will be Canon Edwards at 11 am and the Deacon Hobertsin at evening services. Rev Faulkner officiates all St Paul’s Kingston services. A Canberra branch group travels to Wane tenday to participate in the Core reat Communion.
The second anniversary of the Cathedral Church of St Andrew will be on Sunday September 20. Rev R Wilson Macaulay BA minister of Camberwell Melbourne will sermon at both services. He is a former Moderator of the Jewish Assembly of Victoria and Senior Clerk of the General Assembly of Australia now meeting in Sydney. C S Daley will play the organ. the choir will render special music.
The Green and White Ball is hosted by the Canberra City AI League Football Club at Hotel Civic on Monday evening with anticipated notable arts and social activities. Invitations are said to be sold out, and Young People's Day will be observed tomorrow with morning and evening services and a social calendar. The event features a sermon on The Divine and a service at the riverbank, followed by an evening program themed Eventful Powers of Life with an anthem Let not Your Heart be Troubled and a Greens and White mallet decoration by Bre.
The Canberra Light Horse Regiment has enrolled its full quota amid many inquiries. A waiting list is opened for new recruits and a trumpeter driver post is added with pay of 25 shillings daily plus mileage allowances. Training begins this weekend at Duntroun ahead of a December regimental camp.
Reports from Grenfell indicate bloodstains on Curlist's Crossing bridge may be linked to the disappearance of William Lavers. Police suspect he was dumped into the water, while an old touring car seen nearby remains unlocated. An official Gazette note offers a £100 reward for information leading to Lavers’ discovery, alive or dead.
In the House of Representatives the Opposition Leader said locals had applied for hotel rooms in Canberra and been refused despite availability. He suggested some hotels only serve commercial traffic and urged reconsideration so Commonwealth public servants could secure accommodations they are entitled to. the Interior Minister promised a fuller review of housing conditions.
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