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Belgian Relief Fund programme. Grand dance carnival and patriotic tableaux. Great dance...
Date: 1914
From: [Programmes for ballet and dance performances in New Zealand. 1910-1919]
Reference: Eph-A-DANCE-1914-03
Description: Programme booklet for a dance recital contains photographs of King Albert in military uniform, and a group of (probably Belgian) children standing in fur coats. The programme lists tableaux and dances. Tableaux include "Belgium" (Mona Mackay), "The Allies" (with women representing England (Miss M Miller), France (Miss Woodham), Russia (Miss Lewis), Servia (Miss E Miller), Japan (Miss Hipkins), and Belgium (Miss Mona Mackay). The dance pupils are all listed with the items they performed. Other variety perfomers were Mr J W Ryan, Mr Alan McElwain, Mr F G Bourke. The programme contains advertisements for many Auckland businesses. There is also a cartoon "Bravo! Belgium" by F H Townsend showing brave Belgium protecting a field from a fierce German soldier carrying sausages and a big stick. Quantity: 1 Programme(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, 248 x 189 mm.
Bottle O! catalogue and souvenir of the auction sale of bottles collected by the childr...
Date: 1916
From: [Ephemera relating to patriotism, fundraising for the war effort, during World War I. 1914-1918. Folder 1]
By: Caxton Printing Company (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-Patriotic-1916-01
Description: Booklet listing all 237 lots for sale at a patriotic auction of bottles, and describing the process of collecting the bottles, which will be ground down for the war effort. Bottles for the following products were included: whisky, wine and claret, Hayward's pickle, coffee essences, sauces, Koefoed sauce, honey bottles, jelly jars, flasks, vingar bottles, ink bottles, Bennett's Carbonated waters, Lane's Carbonated waters, Thomson's carbonated waters, meat paste and tongue containers, Lane's, West's and Sharpe's 1-gallon screw-top jars, Nileson Vickers 1-gallon jars, Campbell and List's, Briggs's, K&P, Cinese earthernware bottles, stone curacao and stone gins pots, blue poisons, beef and iron wine, malt extracts, Mellin's Food, Humanised Milk, Essences, Round-shouldered limes, Direct Squares, Lane's Emulsion, United Friendly Societies' Dispensary, F Wilkinson, J Waters, R Scofield, J Neill Ltd, U L Gallien, C V Inglis, H Bagley and Son, H W R Outram, N Dodds, A M Hendy, R Conn, J R Hayne, W Elder, W U Donnelly, champagne, stone ginger beer, infant feeding bottles ("Shirkers"), 10-gallon acid glass carboys. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages each 182 x 123 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Otago Heritage Books in 2003.