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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1949

441 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 22 of 23

Champions Arrive For Bushmen's Carnival

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 December 1949 · page 2

Several Australian champion buckjump riders and bulldoggers will compete at the carnival being conducted on Friday and…

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Maclean Show Committee

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1949 · page 3

MACLEAN. -- The monthly meeting of the Committee of Management of the Lower Clearance Agricultural Society was…

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Coff's Cyclists For Christmas Carnival

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 December 1949 · page 7

COFF'S HARBOUR.--Coff's Harbour Cycle Club has decided to support the cycling events to be staged at the Coff's Harbour…

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£1000 for Dorrigo Show Pavilion

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 3

A total of £1025 has been raised at Dorrigo towards the erection of a new pavilion on Dorrigo Showground, which will be…

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Rain Belays Bushmen's Carnival

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 December 1949 · page 2

The Clarence River Bushmen's Carnival Committee met on the Showground last night and decided to cancel all events for the…

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Trotting Programme At Coff's Carnival

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 December 1949 · page 5

COFF'S HARBOUR, Fri.--The secretary of the Coff's Harbour P.A.H. and I. Society, Mr. W. R. Graham, has been advised that over 20 horses from…

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Armidale Show Pageant

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 December 1949 · page 4

ARMIDALE.--A meeting of Armidale P and H. Association appointed a sub-committee to discuss the possibility of a…

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Great Doings for Coffs Street Christmas Carnival

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 2

Extensive preparations have been made and are now complete for the Annual Christmas Fair to be held in High Street during Christmas week. The organisers are out to make it one of the best carnivals ever staged…

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Arrangements For Legion Carnival

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1949 · page 2

The committee of the Grafton Legion sub-branch, which is organising a Christmas carnival at Market Sauare, Grafton, next…

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Coff's Harbour Does Well At Surf Carnival

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 December 1949 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR, Sun.--Members of the Coff's Harbour Life Saving Club won most events at the Nambucca Heads…

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Protest at Coffs surf carnival

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 20 December 1949 · page 2

Nambucca "News," in its report of Coffs Surf Club's carnival, has the following to say:—"in the junior surf teams race a…

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Australians Should Exhibit At Canada's World Fair

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 December 1949 · page 6

Mr F. W. Fraser, the Canadian Trade…

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Legion Carnival In Market Square

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 December 1949 · page 3

The Christmas carnival of the Grafton sub-branch of the Legion of Ex-Servicemen and Women opened in Market…

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Engineering And Marine Exhibition

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 5

Visitors from 20 nations attended the opening ceremony of the Engineering and Marine Exhibition at Olympia. The exhibition is the largest ever held in Britain and the biggest of its kind in the world. The exhibitors…

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Big Attendance At Legion Carnival

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 2

The carnival organised by the Grafton sub-branch of the Legion of Ex-servicemen and Women in the Market Square,…

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Woodchop Carnival Has Record Entry

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 5

COFF'S HARBOUR. Thurs.--Faced with the heaviest entry ever received at a woodchop carnival in Coff's Harbour, the…

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Matinee Carnival To Be Held

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 December 1949 · page 3

After the successful night of the Legion of Ex-servicemen's carnival last night the organ ser (Mr. W. Peters) said there…

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Visiting Axemen For Coff's Carnival

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 December 1949 · page 6

COFF'S HARBOUR.--Visiting axemen from all eastern States are arriving in Coff's Harbour for the annual Christmas…

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Christmas Fair In Coff's Street

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 December 1949 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR: -- The Christmas fair, be ng conducte throughout the holiday week in High street, Coff's Harbour, opened…

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Detroit Trade Fair Postponed

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 December 1949 · page 5

Mr. Orsen N. Nielsen, American Consul-General at Sydney, has been informed by the U.S. Department of Commerce that the…

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