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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1951

383 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 20

Venetian Carnival

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 June 1951 · page 2

Grafton City Council has decided to participate in a ceremony of greeting from capital cities of Australia at…

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Carnival Idea Deferred

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 June 1951 · page 2

The Jacaranda Festivals Committee last night discussed at some length proposals by Mr. J. Clavton for a carnival attraction…

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Sheep Show in Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 June 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.-- The annual sheep show, the world's greatest display of Merino sheep and woollen and knitted goods, will…

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Poultry Show Entries Valued At £5000

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 June 1951 · page 2

Four hundred and fifty fowls, valued at about £5000 will be exhibited at Grafton District Poultry Club's show…

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Bellingen Show Presidency To S. R. McDougall

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 June 1951 · page 5

BELLINGEN, Thurs -- Mr. S. R. McDougall, retiring president, defeated Mr. Mark Goldstein in a ballot for the…

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Annual Show Grafton Poultry Equal To Best

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 June 1951 · page 3

Confidence that Australian Game varieties and Australorps exhibited at the 13th annual Grafton District Poultry Club show would hold their own in any company in Australia was expressed…

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Large Crowd At Puppet Show

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 June 1951 · page 2

The doll and puppet show held in the Grafton Methodist Church on Saturday afternoon attracted many adults as well…

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Fair Nature

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 5

Nature is a creature fair Who wears gay ribbons in her hair. I see them flaunt on sunlit hill And wave inv every ferny rill…

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BOWLS District Carnival In August

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 7

The Clarence River District Bowling Association, at the annual meeting, decided to hold the annual carnival on August…

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Rare Picture at Arts & Crafts Exhibition

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 1

One of the outstanding features of the Arts and Crafts exhibition to be staged next Friday and Saturday by Coffs…

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Britain's Seaborne Exhibition The Festival Ship "Campania"

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 1

The exhibition is fitted out in the hangar of the ship. The first half of the exhibition tells the story of the Land of Britain, the second half containing the Sea and Shipping section, a series of sections on British discoveries. British contributions to the…

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Record Price At Sheep Fair

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--A world's record price at auction for a merino ram was created at the 1951 Sydney Jubilee Sheep Fair…

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BELLINGEN: Show Presidency Again To Stan McDougall

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 3

There were two nominations for the position of president at the enthusiastic show meeting on Friday night last—Mr. R. S…

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Guides' Dog Show

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 June 1951 · page 4

COFF'S HARBOUR:--A parade in which 128 Guides, Brownies and Cubs took part was the opening feature in the…

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State Might Show Surplus

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 June 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--The State Government will balance its Budget for the year ending to-morrow, and might even show a slight surplus…

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Show Society Has Good Year

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 July 1951 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR, Sun.-- At the annual meeting of the Coff's Harbour and District P.A.H. and I. Society, on…

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Exhibition Triumph for Local C.w.a. Rare Exhibits Attract Large Crowds

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 3 July 1951 · page 1

"Anything the CWA does it does well," said Mrs. Colville. honorary secretary of the Maclean Branch, at the official opening of the Coffs Harbour CWA Arts, Crafts and Antiques Exhibition last Friday afternoon, and the…

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Show Society Now Dot of the Woods" Year's Profit £1046

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 3 July 1951 · page 1

Addressing the annual meeting of [?] Harbour Agricultural Society on Saturday night. Mr. A. P. Small, president, said the Society was now out of the financial "woods." The balance sheet showed that nett profit…

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Exhibition Of Arts And Crafts

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 2

Grafton Technical College Advisory Committee last night decided to advise the Jacaranda Festivals Committee that it would have the full co-operation of the college staff in staging the jubilee year arts…

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Good Support For Coffs Show Society

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 6

COFFS HARBOUR.--In his report to the annual meeting of the Coffs Harbour and District P.A.H, and I. Society, the president, Mr. A. P, Small, said the satisfactory position of the society was due to…

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