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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1947

407 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 21

Dorrigo Bacon Scoops Honours at Royal Show Many Awards to Local Products Meritorious Performance Against Strong Competition

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 1

Dorrigo hams and bacon scooped the pool at the recently held Sydney Royal Show and against strong competition were…

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Coff's Harbour Carnival Figures

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 6

COFF'S HARBOUR, Fri.—The Coff's Harbour Christmas Carnival Committee decided to submit the balance sheet of the 1946…

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Prospects For Kempsey Show

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 2

KEMPSEY, Fri. — Indications are that Kempsey will have a record show next week. Entries in all sections,…

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Anzac Day Request To Show Society

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 2

ULMARRA, Fri.—The Ulmarra Municipal Council, at a meeting on Thursday, decided to ask the Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural…

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Rural Bank Chief to Open Grafton Show

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 2

Mr. C. R. McKerihan, president of the Rural Bank of N.S.W., has accepted the invitation of the Clarence Pastoral and…

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Diggers Protest Against Show Anzac Day

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 2

LISMORE, Sun.—The action of the Clarence P. and A. Society in holding the second day of its show on Anzac Day was strongly…

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BOAMBEE Sydney Easter Show

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 2

A most noteworthy local feature of the recent record Royal Show was the success of Mr. C. E. Anderson, of Boambee with his Ayrshire dairy…

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Local Artists Encouraged By Show Society

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 2

To encourage local artists, the schedule of the Clarence P. and A. Society in the fine arts section makes provision for work…

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R.S.L. Protest On Show Letter to the Editor

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 2

Sir,—I read in to-day's "Examiner" where the Far North Coast Council of Sub-branches of R.S.L. criticised the Clarence P. and A…

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Higher Standard At Kempsey Show

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 2

KEMPSEY, Tues.—Kempsey Show opened to-day in cloudy but fine weather, and the judging of exhibits revealed a higher…

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Official Opening Of Kempsey Show

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 April 1947 · page 2

KEMPSEY, Wed.—A crowd of between, 8000 and 10,000 attended the official opening of the Kempsey to-day by the Governor…

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Show Society Seeks Public Risk Insurance

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 April 1947 · page 2

The C.P. and A. Society had not yet been able to secure a public risk policy covering the staging of motor cycle racing at…

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Grafton Show No Ring Events Before Noon On Anzac Day

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 April 1947 · page 5

NO judging or other ring events will take place before noon at the second day of the Grafton Show on Friday, April 25, Anzac Day. The customary two minutes' Anzac Day silence at 11 a.m…

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"Shell Show" Stars

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 18 April 1947 · page 7

Feature artists who will be heard in the "1947 Shell Show," which returned to the air on March 26 after an absence of eighit years, have been…

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BANANAS Sydney Show Exhibit

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 18 April 1947 · page 6

The North Coastarray of bananas and other tropical fruits exhibited at the recent Sydney Royal Show by the BGF was one of the features…

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Big Profit From Carnival For Ambulance

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 April 1947 · page 6

MACLEAN, Thurs.— At the meeting of the Lower Clarence Ambulance social committee and auxiliary, the treasurer (Mr. J…

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Lower Clarence Agricultural Society Makes Show Plans

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 2

MACLEAN, Sun.—A special meeting of the Lower Clarence Agricultural Society was held in the Maclean School of Arts…

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THORPE McCONVILLE SHOW

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 3

Coffs Harbour is to be treated to a feast of rodeo and circus entertainment on Thursday, April 24, when Thorpe McConville's famous…

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Weather Affected Nambucca Show

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 2

MACKSVILLE, Mon.—Although unsettled weather conditions kept away a number of the entries for the poultry section of the…

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Great Levante Show Session Abandoned

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 2

The thunderstorm early last night caused the abandonment of that night's presentation of The Great Levante Show…

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