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Ponsonby Unit of the National Reserve :Monster fete arranged by the Ponsonby Unit of the National Reserve to assist our wounded soldiers and our soldiers' Queen, Mrs J A Wallingford. Point Erin Park, Ponsonby, Saturday October 23rd 1915. Souvenir programme.
- Date
- 1915
- Reference
- Eph-A-VARIETY-1915-01
- Description
Programme booklet shows "Our soldier queen" no. 6, Alice Wallingford, and lists items of the afternoon and evening event. Performers included the Onehunga Brass Band, Boy Scouts under Scoutmaster Pearce, Misses Brown and Spear, Masters Norgrove and Flavell, Miss Elsie Campbell, Master Frank Stewart, Misses McDougall, Miss J Campbell, Mr J H Egan, solo cornet by Musician Cranston, Auckland Male Choir, Mr Wightman McCombe, Miss F McDougall, an aerail glide by Marvou, a Rarotongan Native Contingent. The soldier Queen was to be escorted from the Ferry Buildings in Queen Street to Ponsonby Reservoir and Point Erin Park.
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Booklet of 4 pages, 189 x 124 mm.
Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2004.
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- Part of
- [Theatre ephemera and programmes for music-hall, comedy and variety productions in New Zealand, in 1915].
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Ephemera, Photolithographs, Theatre programmes, Booklet of 4 pages, 189 x 124 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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Date: 1915
From: [Theatre ephemera and programmes for music-hall, comedy and variety productions in New Zealand, in 1915].
Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1915-01-front
Description: Programme cover shows an arrangement of text, and a photograph of Mrs Alice Wallingford, seen through a circular hole in the cover. The hole is framed in red, white and blue concentric circles. Mrs Wallingford's husband Captain Jesse Wallingford was involved in fighting at Gaba Tepe (Gallipoli) and was invalided home in late 2015. Physical Description: Photolithograph and letterpress, 189 x 124 mm.