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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1943

225 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 12

Show Went on Despite Jap Raiders Concert Unit in New Giunea

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 January 1943 · page 4

Mrs. C. I. Davison. of Brushgrove, has received a letter dated December 10 from Private Clive Jay. the well-known violinist, who is at present in…

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Troops Show What Morale Means Lessons For Home Front War Correspondent's Straight Talk Complacency And Disinterestedness Condemned

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 2

Since my return to the mainland from New Guinea many people have asked me about conditions on the northern battlefield, arid from their questions and their reactions to my answers I have formed three very definite conclusions as to how the home front is…

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Relaxed Fair Rents Board Provisions

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thurs.—Discretionary powers have been given to Fair Rents Boards which relax the existing rigid provisions of…

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S.m. to Show Cause Sydney Conspiracy Case

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 January 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Mr. Justice Roper in Chambers to-day made an order calling upon Mr. Hardwick, S.M., and the Police…

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Living Costs Greater Rise Than Figures Show

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 January 1943 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Fri.—Living costs had risen in the past quarter to a greater extent than the Commonwealth Statistician's figures…

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Signature Tune "Advance Australia Fair"

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.—The playing of "Advance Australia Fair" was not done because of sentimental or patriotic reasons, but…

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Cot Carnival On Saturday Next Model Plane Builders

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 January 1943 · page 2

Model planes will be on exhibition at the carnival in Market Square next Saturday. A prize of a construction kit by Holton's…

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Cot Fund Carnival Further Potato Race Challenges

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 February 1943 · page 2

A further competitor in the big challenge potato race to be held at the Cot Fund Carnival in Market Square on Saturday is the…

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Cot Fund Display By Air Cadets at Saturday's Carnival

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 February 1943 · page 2

The second event on the afternoon's programme at the Buffalo Cot Fund Carnival at Market Square on Saturday will be a…

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Too Dear Fruit-Vegetables Want Fair Prices N.S.W. Lab. Caucus to Curtin

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 February 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.—The State Parliamentary Labor Caucus to-day demanded that the Federal Government take action to make…

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Flying Dutchmen Hammer Jap Bases Strafed At 50ft. "Just to Show Colors."

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 February 1943 · page 1

Somewhere in Australia, Wed.— Japanese attempting to consolidate bases in the Dutch islands ef the Arafura, Banda…

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Only in the Early Stages Russian Offensive 2000-Mile Front Soon Be Aflame 24 GENERALS, 91,000 Prisoners at Stalingrad Figures Show Vast German Losses

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 February 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Tues.—"The High Command of the Russian armies has prepared a victory plan effecting every part of the front, which will soon be put into operation. The German army in the Caucasus will suffer the same fate as their comrades in Stalingrad. The…

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Cot Fund Carnival Caught Killed and Dressed

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 February 1943 · page 2

A choice assortment of poultry, including young drakes, cockerels and hens, have been dressed by Mr. Frank MacDonald for the Col…

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Buffalo Cot Fund Carnival This Afternoon and Night

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 February 1943 · page 2

Besides the usual carnival attractions of chocolate wheels ana housie-housie, etc., an entertaining programme of miscellaneous…

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Buffalo Carnival Wonderful Result Saturday's Cot Fund Effort

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 February 1943 · page 2

Wonderful co-operation, harmonising both the spirit and the effort, characterised the activities of members of the Buffalo cot…

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FOOTWEAR To Be Branded to Show Reliable Types

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—The Controller of Footwear, Mr. Rosevear, announced to-day that within a few days an order would be issued…

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Faid Pass a Rommel Show Say U.S. Troops Tunisian Campaign

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Sun.—According to Reuter's correspondent in Algiers, United States soldiers returning from the battle for…

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Fair Rent Case Wrong Owner Cited

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 February 1943 · page 1

Before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., at the Grafton Fair Rents Court yesterday. Sidney Harold Hague applied for the determination of the fair rent of…

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Tests Show Zero No Super Plane

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Sat.—Tests of a captured Jap Zero plane have exploded the theory that the Zero is a super plane, declared Lieut…

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Fair Rent Queen Street Flat

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 2

Before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., at the Giafton Fair Rents Court yesterday. Sidney Harold Hague applied for the determination of the fair rent of…

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