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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1926

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Fair Rents Court Record Number of Applications. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 January 1926 · page 5

During the last year 1152 applications were dealt with by the Fair Rents Court. This is a record figure, as 1924 supplied the next best figure of 1014…

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Amusements "Vanity Fair" at the Fitzroy

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 January 1926 · page 4

Thackeray's designing little baggage, Becky Sharp, who is the central figure in that novelist's most famous book, lives upon the screen in Mabel Ballin's…

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Agricultural Society Monthly Committee Meeting. Getting Ready for Show

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the committee of the Agricultural Society was held in the Memorial Hall on Wednesday morning, when the following…

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Dorrigo Show

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 2

The committee of the Agricultural Society, at its meeting last Wednesday finally decided to include woodchopping and crosscut-sawing competitions…

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Acricultural Ass'n. Final Preparations for Annual Show

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 2

The committer of the Cuffs Harbor and District Agricultural Association met on Thursday last, at Filzroy Booms. The President,…

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Coff's Harbor Show Agricultural Assn. Meeting Final Preparations

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 January 1926 · page 2

A meeting of the committee of the Coff's Harbor and District Agricultural Association was held at the Fitzroy Rooms on Thursday last. The president, Mr. W…

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Picture Show Charges

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 2

At the Memorial Institute committee meeting on Monday evening there was a revision of the charges made for admission to the picture show. The…

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Dunedin Exhibition. Dunedin

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 4

The attendance at Dunedin exhibition up to last night was 943,858. The exhibition authorities intend to present a gold watch to the millionth…

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Is the Country Getting a Fair Deal?

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 4

The opinion of many country people was voiced by Mr. Kilpatrick, M.L.A., when he criticised the Government's decision to spend millions of the taxpayers' money for the resumption of the motor 'bus services in the county of Cumberland, whilst at the same time cutting down the estimates…

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District Exhibit for Sydney Show Association Meeting in Grafton

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 2

At the Grafton Town Hall last night the members of the North Coast Show Societies' Association met to consider the arrangements for the North Coast and…

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Grafton District Hospital Queen Carnival

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 4

The above carnival, which is to be held from March 19 to 26 next, extending over one week, bids fair to outrival any function of a similar kind yet attempted in…

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Telegrams Show Accident. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 4

Miss Nancy Mann, 23, was injured at St. Ives' Show to-day, when the horse she was riding bolted, after jumping a fence and jambed her against a post…

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Dunedin Exhibition Federal Representation Mr. Clive McPHERSON Selected. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 5

The Prime Minister announced that Mr. Clive McPherson, C.B,E., Commonwealth Government representative on the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Control Board,…

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To Show Cause New Labor M.L.C. DUBBO

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 3

A move is on foot to depose Mr. A. A. Alam, one of the 25 recent appointees to the Legislative Council from the presidency of the local branch of the A.L.P…

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Tax on Motors £900,000 for Roads Minister at Motor Show. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 2

The motor exhibition arranged by the Motor Traders Association opened on the Sydney Showground last night. The value of the machines is estimated at…

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Cycling Anniversary Day Carnival George Dempsey

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 January 1926 · page 4

Local riders are now training in "dead earnest" for the big carnival to be held at Fisher Park on Anniversary Day and night. As many as 15 have been…

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Farm Lessees Fair Rents Court? Minister Will Consider. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 January 1926 · page 4

In the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Davies asked the Minister for Lands whether he would consider the appointment of a Fair Rents Court to deal with…

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Dutch Heresy Hunt Eve And The Serpent Clergyman Doubts Story Called on to Show Cause. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 January 1926 · page 5

Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent states that for delivering a sermon three years ago, in which he expressed doubt as to the historical accuracy of the…

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C.P. And A. Society Committee Meeting Governor-general to Open Show Appeal for District Exhibit

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 January 1926 · page 6

The committee of the Clarence River Pastoral and Agricultural Society met at the Showground yesterday afternoon. In the absence of Mr. C. H. Tindal, president,…

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Grafton Show Schedules

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 4

The schedules for the Grafton Annual Srow, 1926, are now completed and intending exhibitors are reminded that these may be obtained at any of the…

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