State: New South Wales, Australia
Issued on: n/a
Date of presentation: 17/03/1900
Number issued: 4
Gold medals, to:
New South Wales Bushmen's Contingent Fund Collectors –
Miss Fanny POWERS
Miss Ethel SMITH
Miss May SMITH
Miss Noni RICKARDS
Presentation made by Mr Harry Rickards, at the Criterion Theatre, in recognition of the recipients' work in connection with the collection of funds for the Bushmen's Contingent.
Supplied by Messrs H. Pottier & Co., Royal Arcade, Sydney.
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Sydney Morning Herald, 19th March 1900
CRITERION THEATRE.
Several new features were included in the programme of Mr Rickards’s Tivoli Company on Saturday. The most notable was the series of war pictures, shown by means of the biograph and the limelight lantern. …….
……. At the conclusion of the first part Mr Harry Rickards presented gold medals to Miss Fanny POWERS, Miss Ethel SMITH, Miss May SMITH, and Miss Noni RICKARDS, four young ladies who had been instrumental in collecting funds for the Bushmen’s Contingent. The medals were struck by Messrs H. Pottier and Co., of the Royal Arcade.
