Coffs Harbour High School Posts New Enrolment Record
Annual Speech Day reports a school enrolment of 620 348 boys and 272 girls, with 271 pupils enrolled this year mostly in First Year. Leaving Certificate 1947 had 29 candidates with 23 passes, best by Jim Wright in Mathematics. 79 Intermediate Certificate applicants, 61 passes, and notes on pathways to university or college.
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Farmall
McCormick-Deering
Coffs
Jim Wright
Teachers’ College
Coffs Diggers Plan to Foster British Ex-Serviceman
Coffs Diggers at a monthly meeting agreed to foster a British Ex-Serviceman desiring to settle in Australia. The man, a mechanical engineer, will be housed by his brother-in-law Digger George Williams. The group will forward the official nomination to RSL Headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coffs
Australia
Inlaw
George Williams
RSL
Digger Williams
Diggers
Visiting character warned off at Scone carnival
A visiting man at the Scone carnival pinned a badge on locals and demanded 2s for the League. Police warned him off as victims paid money to the wrong organization, with funds benefiting the con man rather than the Returned Soldiers' League.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scone
Returned Soldiers’ League
Batoner
High School Prizewinners for the Year
Cux of Coffs Harbour High School lists top students across years with Allan Hogbin and Barbara Turner tied for first in Fourth Year. It covers class by class standings, prize names in English, economics, and domestic science, plus sport prize winners in swimming athletics football cricket tennis hockey and basketball.
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Cux
Coffs High School
Allan Hogbin
Coffs Harbour
Brian Connell
Fernmount
Barbara Turner
Joyce Nolan
Marlene McLaughlin
Rita Smith
Des Moore
Colin Winkler
Darrell Shields
Geo
Pacey
Newell
Gwen Brook
A. S. Donnelly
Ray Glyde
Jean Stanford
CWA
June Williams
Pegeyy Guinn
Lindsay Cochrane
Rex McCarthy
Allen Stonefield
June Jeffreys
Norma Ward
Nancy Lave
Ulrich
Kaye Hill
Ray Nolan
Keith Moran
Pamela Williams
Pat Copas
Barbara Storm
Ken Wills
Kevin Warren
Harvey Wilson
Ossie Steele
Spin For Dairymen's Families
Australian Primary Producers' Union leader Mr. Gleeson says farm living standards must improve. He calls for ending child and wife labour on farms and restructuring farming to match other industries, stressing unity among farmers for success.
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Mr. Gleeson
CWaA Stall Raises funds and prizes awarded at meeting
The stall by the CWaA netted £9 17s 1d for the funds. Mrs R W Sharpe won the £1 trophy and Miss T Tutton Boambre took a duck prize. Thanks extend to all helpers. At the Coffs Sub Branch RSL meeting laeger H Burgess urged forming a 4 Legacy group in the district next year. Burgess is Legacy Lation officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cwaa
R. W. Sharpe
T Tutton
Boambre
Coffs
RSL
Laeger H. Burgess
Digeer Burgess
PIMMS No 1 Cup and Spirit Bottle Offerings
An advertisement lists bottles and 1 bottle quantities for PIMMS No 1 Cup along with schnapps quarters halves larges Australian whisky brandy gin rum as well as wines in bottles and four bottles and cocktails including Martini and Manhattan for sale.
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Gavin’s
Hennessy’s
Gordon’s
Lowndes
RED Heart
Jamaica
D.O.M. Benedictine
Bitters
Angostura
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Max Hutton
Sawtell
Cloverdale Subdivision
M. Cunningham & Sons
ADJ
Fitzroy Hotel
Claude Smith
C. G. Lauder
Bec
Harold Foote
Digezer Foote
Fugland
Department of Lands
Fowler and
Dockrill
Roy Vincent
Dorrigo Shire
Dell Harwood
Barbara Grant
Boris Platts
Lorraine Bracken
Peggy Guinn
Florence Wright
Wilga Baker
Alastair Watt
Norman Elliott
Peter Smith
Rita Mullard
Barbara Williamson
Enid Henderson
Olga Parkins
Leslie Gillam
Richard Retallick
A. H. Archer
R.A.A.F
Vic
Reddacliff
Coffs Harbour Dry Cleaners
Ocean Street
Coffs Jetty
Taylor and
Martin
Tasma Theatre
F. S. Bailey
MID Coast Co-Operative Meat Society Limited
Wirrimbi
Macksville
the Mid Coast Co-Operative Meat Society Limited
P.O. Box
Bottle Department
Grafton Street
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