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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1953

532 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 25 of 27

Pet Show At Maclean

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 November 1953 · page 2

MACLEAN, Fri. -- A successful pets show and exhibition of schoolwork was conducted by the…

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C.O.L. Adjustments Case A.C.T.U. Succeeds In Legal Move High Court Grants Show Cause Order

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 November 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri. -- The A.C.T.U. succeeded to-day in it's first legal move against the Arbitration Court to retain cost of living adjustments for most workers. In the High Court, the Chief Justice, Sir Owen Dixon,…

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Fair Rents Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 November 1953 · page 6

At Grafton Fair Rents Court yesterday, Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., made the following determinations…

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Barton's Follies Will Show Here Next Week

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 10 November 1953 · page 7

Barton's Follies, so well known to Coffs Harbour, audiences, will play here next week on the annual schedule…

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Voted Carnival The Best Yet

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 November 1953 · page 6

Experienced adherents of cycle racing voted the carnival on the new McKittrick Park track as one of…

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Advance Agriculture Fair She May Have Bells On Her Neck But No Hardware Inside

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 November 1953 · page 6

The danger of leaving metal scraps where cattle can gain access to them in feeding is…

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Ladies Arrange Show Dance

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 November 1953 · page 3

There was a good attendance of members at the monthly meeting of the Ladies Committee of the Agricultural…

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Spring Show in December Drought Conditions Fail to Mar Committee's Efforts

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 November 1953 · page 1

Despite the unfavourable drought conditions prevailing, committeemen of the Dorrigo and Guy Fawkes Agricultural Association are working hard to ensure the success of Dorrigo's 1953 Spring Show, to…

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Car Park for Grafton Show

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 November 1953 · page 2

Grafton City Council last night agreed to a request from the C.P. and A. Society for Plane Tree Avenue to…

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Surf Carnival Nominations

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 November 1953 · page 2

The secretary of the Yamba Surf Life Saving Club Mr. F. J. Hall, said yesterday that nominations…

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Record Attendance At Exhibition

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 November 1953 · page 2

Mr. T. J. Keane, principal of the Grafton Technical College, stated at last night's meeting that…

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Advance Agriculture Fair Water Storage Stabilises Food Crop Prospects

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 November 1953 · page 6

Major irrigation schemes in New South Wales have brought security from droughts to the irrigation settlements which they serve, but in many fruit growing areas beyond the scope of these schemes, individual growers are proving the worth of the small conservation project…

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BOWLS: Nambucca Carnival

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 8

Last Sunday a team from Dorrigo went to Nambucca Heads to take part in that Club's Carnival…

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High Standard Exhibition at Infants' School

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 4

The annual exhibition of the work of the children at Coffs Harbour Infants[?] School attracted a large number of parents…

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improvements Proposed For 1954 Show

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 3

The management committee of the C.P. and A. Society was empowered at yesterday's meeting to act upon recommendations from section committees for…

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Spring Show Despite Drought Conditions

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 8

The Spring Show will be held as planned, on December 4th and 5th next. Concern has been expressed in some quarters at the unfavourable conditions prevailing and fear is held for entries in some…

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Entries Coming in for Woodchopping Carnival

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 24 November 1953 · page 8

The organiser of the Christmas Carnival, Mr. O. M. Potts, stated at the week-end that very satisfactory entries were coming…

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Advance Agriculture Fair Demonstrate Path To Pasture Improvement

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 November 1953 · page 6

Haphazard pasture work on old cultivation paddocks--cropped for years and depleted in fertility--is a discredited practice in many dairying districts…

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Annual Show Next Week

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 November 1953 · page 1

Dorrigo and Guy Fawkes 42nd annual Show will be held on Friday and Saturday next. The welcome and long…

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Tropical Fruit Exhibit for Dorrigo Show

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 27 November 1953 · page 10

Coffs Harbour District Council of the Banana Growers' Federation Co-op. Ltd., decided at its November meeting to stage a…

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