A new painting of the Australian Hospital ship Centaur, commissioned for Port Adelaide's 2009 ANZAC Light on the Water commemoration, has been completed by renowned Birkenhead maritime artist, John Ford (F.A.S.M.A.).
3000 candle-lit lifeboats are being made by local school students to commemorate the 11 nurses, 33 Army Medical Corps, 179 Field Ambulancemen and 45 Merchant Navy Crw lost with the Centaur off the Queensland coast in May 1943.
To raise funds for the spectacular Port River ANZAC commemoration on April 24, this brilliant painting is being framed and will be the prize in a raffle to be conducted among the 400 people who attend the 1940s Dance Party fundraiser at the Maritime Workers Hall on Saturday April 4.
Local residents will wear 1940s fashions and hairstyles as they dance to the Bay Big Band and are entertained by singers Marlene Richards, Terry Brooker, Wally Carr, Jenny Loftes and the Not The Andrews Sisters.
Some tickets are still available for this memorable event at $25 per head (concession $20) from Port Mall Newsagency in Port Adelaide or by by phone (08) 8447 2961 or by email at contact@portmallnewsagency.com.au
The staging of the 1940s Dance Party and other events will ensure that public attention is drawn to the historic Waterside Workers Hall at 11 Nile Street, which is one of the few magnificent halls of its type in Australia and should be restored to all its glory.
An enormous chapter of Port Adelaide history has been enacted in and around this building.
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