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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1947

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Show Near Canberra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 June 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wed.--Snow inches deep covered the Canberra skiing resort of Mount Franklin following a heavy blizzard on the…

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Band will Assist At Week-end Carnival

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 1

Coffs Bland has voluntarly offered to assist at street carnival tomorrow evening and at the sports on Monday. The offer has been…

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British Textile Industrial Exhibition In London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 June 1947 · page 3

This picture shows cutters giving a display of their work at a British Textile Industrial Exhibition in London. The exhibition drew large crowds. British textile exports have increased greatly in the past 12 months…

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Bucking Exhibition At Coffs Sports

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 17 June 1947 · page 4

Mr. Walter Morris rebdered very valuable assistance in connection with the Food for Britain sports yesterday. But for him there would have…

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Profit Of £1367 At 1947 Grafton Show

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 June 1947 · page 4

NET profit on the 1947 Grafton Show was £1367, and the C.P. and A. Society's bank overdraft has been reduced from £1937 to £465. These figures were given in the financial statement…

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Start Of Annual Trek For Racing Carnival

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 5

THE annual trek of racehorses to Grafton, for the July racing has begun. A count of horses in Grafton and South Grafton yesterday showed that 86 were in training here…

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Killers Show Off Coffs Harbour

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 1

Killers were in evidence in the waters off the entrance to Coffs Harhour yesterday and for a time gave some onlookers an attractive display…

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Successful Fair At Yamba

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 June 1947 · page 2

YAMBA.--A successful fair was held at Yamba. It was well attended by visitors and local residents. It was the first fair to…

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Poultry Show in Grafton

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 June 1947 · page 3

The re-organised Grafton and District Poultry Club under the direction of Mr. Lance Wasson. (honorary secretary), and the…

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Royal National Show

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 June 1947 · page 5

Queensland's great annual event is to be held this year from August 9th to 16th on the Royal National Association's grounds at…

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Flawless Exhibition By Attley

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 5

BRISBANE, Thurs.—Attley favourite for the Doomben £10,000, gave a flawless exhibition in a barrier stall trial at…

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Tenterfield Show Society

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 2

TENTERFIELD. — The new committee of Tenterfield Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Society, has elected the following:—…

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Combined High Schools Athletic Carnival

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY Fri.--Fourteen-year-old Marjory Jackson, of Lithgow, won the 100 yards championship of all High Schools at Combined…

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South Grafton Jockey Club Wants Racing Continued After July Carnival

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 3

AT the annual meeting of the South Grafton Jockey Club held last night, members expressed a desire to see race meetings continued following the conclusion of the annual July race carnival…

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Coff's High School Athletic Carnival

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 June 1947 · page 3

COFF'S HARBOUR, Friday.--The Coff's Harbour High School annual athletic carnival was held on the Coff's Harbour Showground yesterday. More than ordinary interest attached to the performances of students at this year's carnival in view of…

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Grafton Poultry Club Show

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 June 1947 · page 2

As a result of the interest shown in the ninth exhibition, Grafton Poultry Club is confident of a larger and more…

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Sydney Markets Fair Demand for Fish

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 July 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.--The request for mandarins was fairly quiet at the fruit market, but sellers Were able to maintain prices at…

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Art Exhibition Aids Food For Britain

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 July 1947 · page 5

BELLINGEN.--The art exhibition by Bellinger River painters, which has just closed at Bellingen, resulted in £36 being…

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Coff's Christmas Carnival Committee Resigns

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 July 1947 · page 3

COFF'S HARBOUR, Thursday.--All members of the Coff's Harbour Christmas Carnivall Committee, elected recently to conduct the 1947 Coff's Harbour Christmas .Carnival tendered their resignations to a public meeting called for the purpose by the…

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EXONERATED! Past Christmas Carnival Committee

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 4 July 1947 · page 2

After a number of speakers had voiced their condemnation of the, person alleged to have written to the Chief Secretary's Department…

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