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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 03, 1944
Page
4
A spring fashion note highlights new pastels and luxury hats with varied crowns brims and trimmings. Advertises summer festival coupons from May 18 to 25 and showcases pastel felts, matrons hats, and spring weight frocks with silk options, urging readers to inspect the extensive department selections and shop early.
A film listing notes shows Fred Astaire Rita Hayworth John Heibbard and Robert Benchley in Youll Never Get Rich and Edmund Lowe Marguerite Chapman and John Little in Murder in Times Square both deemed not suitable for general exhibition. Also mentions Walt Disney Saludos Amigos Song of Russia and Mastering the Mariner with Alan Mowbray Marjorie Woolworth and Bobby Watson in Melbourne in various general exhibition slots.
Namurkah from early times hosted fine choirs tied to Presbyterian Catholic Methodist and Anglican churches. A surge came with Lachlan Fraser who trained local girls into a 60 voice choir that won a regional contest, inspiring the formation of a town choir and a musical era. The Numurkah Musicale and subsequent Choral Society drew support from Waaia and Balmauch, toured regionally, and earned notable praise before funding and travel limits curbed competitions, leaving Numurkah known as a singing town.
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