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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1950

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Ambulance Carnival

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 2

MACLEAN.--At a well-attended meeting of the Maclean Ambulance social committee it was decided to hold a carival on…

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Sydney Markets Fair Demand for Fish

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.--At the fruit market to-day stocks of main crop Valencia oranges were again light Lemons sold at unchanged rates. Marketing Bureau's…

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Lower Clarence Show Society

Daily Examiner · Sunday 12 February 1950 · page 2

MACLEAN.--At the meeting of the L.C. Agricultural Society a credit balance of £143610 was reported. Mr. John Ryan…

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Show Schedules Now Available

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 2

The schedules for the coming Coffs, Harbour Show are now available and may be obtained at the office of the secretary…

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Macksville Show on Anzac Day

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 5

Some difficulty has arisen because the second day of Macksville Show falls on Anzac Day. but satisfactory…

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Surf Carnival Winners For National Titles

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 February 1950 · page 5

Yamba surf carnival on Sunday will be the most important of the season in the Far North Coast branch…

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Easter Show Plans of Red Cross

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 February 1950 · page 4

Five thousand loaves of bread, 300lb. of tea, 1200 gallons of fruit drinks--dream-like figures in a housewife's budget--are…

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Proposed New Show Assn. Group

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 1

A suggestion from the Grafton Show Society that a new group of Societies be formed, embracing those…

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Show Society Wants More Money

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 1

Coffs Harbour PAH & I Society has decided to recommend to the trustees of the showground that they apply to…

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Indian Fair Save Test Innings

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 5

MADRAS, Sun. (AAP-"Renter)--India had scored 5185 at[?]stumns on the second day's play in the fifth "test" against the…

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Big Effrort For Coff's Centenary Show

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 4

COFF'S HARBOUR.--Coif's Harbour P.A.H. and I. Society and residents of the district arc co-operating to make the 1950 annual show the greatest in the district's history. The show will be held on…

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Public Holiday For Show

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 1

Advice has been received by the Shire Clerk, Mr. Ray E. Smith, that the second day if Coffs show, Thursday March 2, has…

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Lismore Show President Resigns

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 2

Mr. E. J. Eggins, M.H.R., after being president of the North Coast National A. and I. Society, has tendered his resignation to…

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Coff's Carnival Letter to the Editor

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 2

Sir,--It has been reported that Coff's Harbour visitors to the Grafton rodeo on January 28 and 30 stated, in conversation with…

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Accommodation Short for Show Livestock

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.--Entries in the Royal Agricultural Society's Show this year will cause a record shortage of…

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Show Committee Worker Honoured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 February 1950 · page 4

BELLINGEN.--Members of the Bellingen Show ladies' committee, at a social gathering following their meeting, entertained…

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Bowling Carnival at Easter

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 6

Organisation for the Coffs Harbour Bowling Club's Easter Carnival is now well advanced. It is expected there will…

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Prizes For Show

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 1

Miss J. Anderson, of Woolgoolga, has donated two prizes for horse events at the Coffs Harbour Show. She has given a special…

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Surprise Defeats In Bowls Carnival

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Three of the State's best singles players and three outstanding pairs were surprisingly eliminated in the post sectional play in the Country Week bowls carnival to-day…

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Bright Carnival at South Grafton

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 2

The Grafton Girls' Marching Hands conducted a successful carnival oh the South Graft&n Boulevard last night. It…

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