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- Vescio family
- Weight family
- Windybank Family
- Yewen Family
- Demographics
- Early History
- Events and Celebrations
- Miscellaneous Histories
- Other
- People
- Recreation and Sport
- Athletics
- Athletics Swimming
- Australian Rules Football
- Ballet
- Baseball
- Beach Volley Ball
- Boating
- Bowling
- Bowls
- Boxing
- Camping
- Captain Ball
- Caravan Park
- Cricket
- Croquet
- Dancing
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- Fancy dress
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- Fitness
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- Hand Gliding
- Holidays
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- Surf Life Saving
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- Surfing
- Swimming
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- tug-of-war
- Vigoro
- Walks
- Windsurfing
- Soldiers by Surname
- War
- Place
- Aerial Photographs
- Baths and Pools
- Beaches
- Beaches A-C
- Beaches D-K
- Beaches L-N
- Beaches P-S
- Beaches T-W
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- Natural Environment
- Street Names in Former Warringah
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- Careel Bay (N.S.W.)
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Letter from Robert Harper to Charles Friend requesting time to see the Illuminations, Newport, 1911
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Record numberLH020913Date14 June 1911DescriptionA letter from Robert Harper, teacher at Newport Public School, requesting to close Newport Public School early, so that he can take his daughters to see the Sydney Illuminations in celebration of the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary
CategoryLetterCreatorRobert Harper, TeacherCharles James Wilkins Friend, Senior InspectorDepartment of Public InstructionSourceWalling SubjectsNewport (N.S.W.)Public schools Physical descriptionDocument; 209mm x 330mm; Digital image, 300 DPICopyrightThis item may be used freely for research and study purposes, for all other uses contact Northern Beaches Council Library Local Studies. Please acknowledge that the item is courtesy of Northern Beaches Council Library Local Studies.
CategoryLetterCreatorRobert Harper, TeacherCharles James Wilkins Friend, Senior InspectorDepartment of Public InstructionSourceWalling SubjectsNewport (N.S.W.)Public schools Physical descriptionDocument; 209mm x 330mm; Digital image, 300 DPICopyrightThis item may be used freely for research and study purposes, for all other uses contact Northern Beaches Council Library Local Studies. Please acknowledge that the item is courtesy of Northern Beaches Council Library Local Studies.
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Department of Public Instruction, Letter from Robert Harper to Charles Friend requesting time to see the Illuminations, Newport, 1911 (14 June 1911). Northern Beaches Council, accessed 01/05/2026, https://northernbeaches.recollect.net.au/nodes/view/56439