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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1941

505 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 23 of 26

Royal Show Premier Is Questioned. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1941 · page 5

The Premier, Mr. McKell, said tonight, the State Government had not taken steps to stop the Royal Easter Show. As far as he knew there was…

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Car Registrations Big Decline Since War Sales Also Show Big Drop. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 October 1941 · page 2

Influenced ?rol rationing and general war conditions the registrations of motor cars in Australia have dropped by nearly 50,000 since the outbreak of…

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Carnival Races Grafton Greyhound Club Saturday Night's Programme

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 October 1941 · page 1

Nominations for next Saturday night's jacaranda patriotic meeting of the Grafton Greyhound Club closed last night and the response was very good in…

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Lismore Show "Response Remarkable" Clarence River Successes

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 October 1941 · page 1

"The response on the first day has been remarkable," said the president of the North Coast A. and I. Society (Mr. E. J. Eggins. M.L.C.). on the…

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Technical Dressmaking Exhibition

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 October 1941 · page 4

The students of the Grafton Technical Dressmaking Class are holding the fifth annual exhibition of their work on Thursday, October 30;…

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Tomatoes at Coffs Show

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 24 October 1941 · page 2

People are still talking about the fine display of bananas at last Coffs Show and the committee hopes that at the forthcoming show on March 10…

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Copmanhurst Fair

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 October 1941 · page 4

The Copmanhurst Church of England Women's Guild will hold their annual fair on November 7 and 8. The official opening by Mrs. W. M. L. Hughes, will…

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Lismore Show Successful Conclusion Grafton Horse Awards

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 October 1941 · page 2

The North Coast National A. and I. Society's third war-time exhibition and its second for patriotic purposes, concluded on Thursday night with a…

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Maclean Patriotic Fair

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 October 1941 · page 3

The profit from the recent Patriotic Fair. held at Maclean, amounted to £12151.The anual meeting of the Maclean patriotic and War Emergency Committee will be held a…

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Technical Dressmaking Exhibition at Maclean

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 October 1941 · page 7

The students of the Lower Clarence technical dressmaking classes held their annual dressmaking exhibition in the Maclean Literacy Institute Hall on…

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Brilliant Scene Carnival In Avenue Official Opening by Lady Wakehurst

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 October 1941 · page 6

With the flower-laden limbs of the tall jacarandas forming a canopy overhead, and strings of bright lights through the branches of the trees…

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Show Accident Rider Injured at Alstonville. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 October 1941 · page 7

Eric Butler, 40, a member of a buck-jumping troupe, received serious head injuries when a trotting horse he was riding crashed in a handicap event at…

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Mr. Scully's Fair Deal

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 31 October 1941 · page 5

Dear Sir,—I admire the generous way you treat your correspondents specially when it has reference to the farmer's side of the question, so…

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Open Air Carnival

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 31 October 1941 · page 2

A carnival outfit erected on the vacant land at Malou[?]s Corner will give local residents and visitors a variety of entertainment during the…

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Carnival To-night For Patriotic Purposes Market Square, Grafton

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 October 1941 · page 4

Although to-night's patriotic carnival at the Market Square, Grafton, is classed as part of the Jacaranda Week Festivities it is being organised by the…

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Baby and flower Show Splendid Display of Little Australians

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 31 October 1941 · page 2

Never previously in the history of the Memorial Hall has that building contained such a gathering of babies as was to be seen there on the…

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Alstonville Show

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 November 1941 · page 4

A vigorous attack on what he described as a "lopsided economic policy" in Australia was made by Mr. W. Frith, M.L.A., when he officially opened the…

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Patriotic Carnival For 13 War Auxiliaries Jacaranda Festival Function

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 November 1941 · page 3

Bordered by jacarandas and palms and lit up by lights strung across the square, the parotic carnival staged in the Market Square, Grafton, last night…

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Show Society Arrangements For 1942 Premier to Be Invited

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 November 1941 · page 6

Because the president. Mr. G. W. Fitzgerald, considered a larger number of council members should consider the question, the council of the C.P. and A. Society agreed at its…

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Carnival Social Postponed

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 November 1941 · page 4

Owing to the Ex-Students social on Thursday night for the Hospital Auxiliary, the carnival social which was arranged for to-night by Mesdames W. J…

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