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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Sep 13, 1944
Page
4
A Canberra area note reports the Canberra Auxiliary and Related Associations planning a busy program for December activities. A retiring president and Mrs Herd are thanked. the group discusses forthcoming dances, fetes, and social events at venues including the Albert Hall and associated clubs.
Marie Clowes of Canberra High School staff will wed Thomas J. Cellins of a Melbourne family. A Canberra dance class program offers general, social, and partner dances with experts including Jima YeMeel and Jack Smith. A meeting of the High School P and A Association invites all parents.
The wedding of Joan Marjorie Macfinlo and Lieutenant Devi Hadfield was solemnised at John’s Church of England, Parramatta, with Bishop Elliott officiating. The bride wore magnolia embroidery and hyacinth accents, attended by bridesmaids in Nanty pink satin. A reception followed at the TW.C.A. Parramatta Centre and a honeymoon at Kiama.
The Canberra Red Cross has supplied hospital with bedding gowns slippers and comforts for patients at Harman and Fujybaten Mowpitat. A large collection of records for the port Ateeamonhawr at No 2 RT has been donated by a member Ne Canberra. Red Cross volunteers supply children ward garments and aid families of service personnel. The ACT Red Cross secretary Mrs. Wilson invites volunteers and friends to view maps of prisoner of war camps and attend the ACT annual meeting led by Justice C. Davia with an exhibit of Canadian and Australian Red Cross materials.
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