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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1951

383 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 20

Maclean Show Society Finishes Year With Credit Balance

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 June 1951 · page 3

MACLEAN. --A credit balance of over £400 was revealed at the final meeting cf the year of the committee of…

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Show Profit Amounted to £748

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 5 June 1951 · page 1

The treasurer, Mr. D. E. Pollard, reported to the committee of Coffs Harbour Show Society on Friday that the nett profit from the annual show amounted to £748. Receipts amounted to £1693 and expenditure was £935…

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People Appreciate Art Exhibition

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 June 1951 · page 2

Grafton and district lovers of art were deeply appreciative of the arrangement and selection of pictures displayed by the Sydney Art Gallery authorities at the Grafton Town Hall…

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Exhibition Bout By Dave Sands

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 June 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wed.--Dave Sands will make his final ring appearance before going to England in an exhibition bout at Leichhardt Stadium…

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Agricultural Society Critical On Showground Move Comments

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 4

The president of the Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society (Mr. T. J. Ford) at yesterday's meeting in the…

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Sports Budget Interest Heightens In Carnival

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 7

Requests to the Clarence River Jockey Club for July race carnival nomination forms, and notices about the arrival of horses, have been increasingly occupying the attention of the club secretary, Miss…

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Tennis Grafton Carnival Abandoned

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 June 1951 · page 5

Rain caused the abandonment of the North Coast tennis championships, which were to have 'been held at Grafton this week-end. THE decision to abandon the…

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Refused To Show Affection

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 June 1951 · page 1

NEW YORK, Fri., (AAP). --A 23-year-old wife won a divorce in Cleveland today, on the grounds that her…

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Show Society Relationship With Trustees

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 June 1951 · page 6

A lengthy discussion on the powers and duties of the trustees of the Grafton Showground and their relationship with tire council of the C.P. and A. Society, took place at Thursday's meeting of the…

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Fair And Concert At Lawrence

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 3

LAWRENCE, Sat.--The fair and concert held in Lawrence under the auspices of the Presbyterian Women's Guild was…

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Carnival Air in Canberra

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Sun.--A week of festivities unprecedented in ceremonial splendour, begins here to-morrow, the first day of Canberra's Commonwealth Jubilee Week…

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Show Cause on Expulsion

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Mr. Justice Kirby to-day ordered National Officers of the Ironworkers' Association to show…

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Sawtell Stages Successful Variety Show

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 7

Sawtell lovers of "flesh and blood" shows had a great thrill on Thursday night last, when they enjoyed another of the…

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Railway Costs Show Increase

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.-- New South Wales railway costs in the first quarter of this year totalled £12,311,804 or…

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Many Helped Sawtell Show

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 15 June 1951 · page 4

Mr. Eric Veale, secretary of the Sawtell Boy Scouts Troop, is very appreciative of the splendid help so generously given to make the…

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C.w.a. Arts, Crafts and Antiques Exhibition

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 15 June 1951 · page 1

Plans are well in hand for the CWA Arts, Crafts and Antiques Exhibition, to be staged in the School of Arts on…

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Dorrigo's Grand Jubilee Bowling Carnival New Clubrooms Opened

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 15 June 1951 · page 8

The fine effort of the Dorrigo bowlers in building for themselves a new clubhouse in spite of shortages of building materials and restricted finances, was rewarded last week-end, when at a successful two-day carnival, the…

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Mayor Praises Art Exhibition

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 June 1951 · page 2

The Mayor of Grafton, Aid. W. R. Weiley at last night's meeting of the City Council, said the recent National Art…

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Dog Show Next

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 19 June 1951 · page 1

There should be a great gathering of the Coffs Harbour tail waggers at the Primary School on Saturday afternoon…

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Show Steers Of Exceptional Quality

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 June 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.-- Steers judged at the Fat Stock Show at the Showground to-day showed exceptional quality…

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