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Article : 1,732 wordsHis Excellency the Governor addressed the following letter last evening to the Premier, as president of the Australian Red Cross Day Committee, expressing his appreciation of the whole of the arrangements for yesterday's function, and especially commenting on the V.A.D. ...
Article : 283 wordsMacquarie-street was a lucrative source of revenue for many itinerant concert parties who from the large residential houses gathered showers of coin. A few isolated stalls ...
Article : 214 wordsThe Victoria and Imperial Arcades each made line displays and vied with each other in decorations, the palm going to the former if anything. In the Victoria the ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Central Railway Station, gay with bunting, is one of the nerve centres of the city, and the Red Cross made no tactical blunder in establishing a bevy of energetic ...
Article : 206 wordsPractically the whole of the wide area in the centre of Queen's-square was occupied by a number of stalls, stocked and supervised by workers associated with the War Chest ...
Article : 462 wordsIt was not until late in the day that "real business" began in Oxford-street. Important as that "gate of the city" is, for a pageant such as yesterday's, it found itself neither ...
Article : 203 wordsUp to 10 p.m., when the banking chamber closed, £20,294 had been paid in as the result of the city collections, with at least 600 or 700 boxes yet to be counted, and £3061 ...
Article : 160 words"It is too soon to speak of the financial result of the day," the chairman of the executive, Mr. J. O. Fairfax, remarked last evening, "but there is every reason to believe that it ...
Article : 348 words"Soldiers, every one of them," called a stalwart labourer as the white-robed army of Voluntary Aids marched past the Governor yesterday morning. To the thousands who ...
Article : 901 wordsThe effort made in William-street, the pathway to the eastern foreshores of the harbour, will be chiefly remembered because of the fact that it was there that "Jackson, V.C.," ...
Article : 121 wordsA monster coffee tent was presided over by Miss Egan and other workers from the Red Cross Clothing Depot. Another large stall or vegetable depot, that ...
Article : 528 wordsThe organisers estimated that approximately £400,000 would be realised when all the returns were in. Mr. Harkness pointed out that the city fund alone (apart from ...
Article : 112 wordsMrs. James Davidson was in charge of the stall at Hunter and Pitt streets. It was called by many "Novelty Corner." Miss Davidson conceived the idea of having the ...
Article : 132 wordsThere are roughly 600 country centres at which celebrations were held. Up to 9 p.m. advices were received from 127 of these, showing amounts collected aggregating £48,261. ...
Article : 278 wordsAt the Town Hall Mrs. Brown was head of a section, and Miss Monie was in the vestibule keeping pace with steady demand for extra buttons all day. The building outside was ...
Article : 137 wordsMartin-place and Moore-street were a blaze of colour and a scene of singing and lively humanity throughout the day and evening. The crowds were good-natured and happy. ...
Article : 204 wordsBeing in the middle of a group of shipping and Government offices, Bridge-street was a busy centre. The lady in charge of one stall had a canary and a cage to raffle. There ...
Article : 124 wordsSections of Castlereagh—street were taken full advantage of for fine displays, exquisite decorations, and unfinching zeal. Here as in the other streets the spinning wheels ...
Article : 331 wordsGeorge-street, from the neighbourhood of the Central Railway Station down as far as the Quay, was one long sweep of gailycoloured stalls. Where there were not stalls ...
Article : 778 wordsThe 18th Battalion Comforts Fund stall, in charge of Mrs. Woolcott and Mrs. Kleemo, was at the bank corner of Martin-place and Moore-street. It was decorated with palms ...
Article : 702 wordsThe official opening of the day in Martinplace was only a formality—business had actually commenced when the boats, trains, and trams started to pour their thousands into the ...
Article : 1,015 wordsA large stall from the whole of the city banks was busily engaged all day at the Town Hall emptying the boxes, which were sent there regularly throughout the day. ...
Article : 213 wordsAll the "fun of the fair" could be found in Macquarie-place, which lends itself so well to the commercial and benevolent activities of such an occasion as Red Cross Day. ...
Article : 435 wordsElizabeth-street, as the funnel, as it were, of the eastern and south-eastern suburbs, acted for the most part as the catcher of contributions as people either entered or left the ...
Article : 146 wordsThe number of musical motor cars and motor lorries yesterday was greater than on last Red Cross Day. For this purpose Paling and Co., Nicholson and Co., and other music ...
Article : 195 wordsReferring to the pageant of V.A.D.'s and Red Cross workers, of which he was the originator, Mr. Hugh Ward last night said that it was the most beautiful spectacle ...
Article : 225 wordsPitt-street, with its narrow thoroughfare and packed throngs was a fine hunting ground for the boxes. Festoons were everywhere, and a bright display was made though the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 27 Apr 1918, Page 13
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