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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Sport

Sport, 1938

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British Football Saturday's Results Wolverhampton in Lead

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 10

Wolverhampton obtained a lead ol one point in the first division of the League (Soccer) competition by a one goal defeat of Liverpool in an away…

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Cost Under £9500 Olympic Swimming Pool Successful Forbes Undertaking Interesting Facts About Scheme

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 10

The following letter, received by Mr. W. R. Welley, from a former resident of Grafton, describing the Olympic swimming pool at Forbes, will be of interest,…

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Annual Meeting S. Grafton Golf Club Election of Officers Opening Day, March 26

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 2

At the annual meeting of the South Grafton Golf Club, which was held at the South Grafton Town Hall last night, it was decided that the club's…

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A.J.C. Races to Be Held at Randwick. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 1

Despite the protest made by the Minister in charge of the celebrations, Mr. Dunningham, against the Australian Jockey Club…

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A Reminder of the Good Things to Come British Sportsmen's Club's Invitation England Again Thinking Of Cricket and Our Cricketers the Problem of Social Functions (Published by Arrangement with the Brisbane "Telegraph."

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 10

The other day I had a pleasant reminder of good things to come. There arrived this letter signed by Lord Decies, as a sort of foretaste of spring: "The British Sportsmen's Club are entertaining the Australian…

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BOXING Coff's Harbor Bouts Connolly to Meet Atkins

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1938 · page 8

The heavyweight championship of the North Coast' will be at stake on Saturday night next, March 12, when Greg Connolly, the well-known fighter…

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SELECTIONS Greyhound Racing To-night's Grafton Meeting

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1938 · page 3

The Grafton Greyhound Racing Club will hold the usual weekly mechanical hare meeting to-night. A programme of eight events will be decided, all of…

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FOOTBALL Upper Clarence League Adjourned Annual Meeting

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1938 · page 2

The adjourned annual meeting of the Upper Clarence Rugby Football League will be held at the Town Hall. Grafton, on Tuesday night, at 7.30. The…

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No Action Inquiry Into Racing Spills Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1938 · page 3

The A.J.C. stewards to-day decided to take no action, following investigations into the falls of Venturesome, Barrister and Achray, at Canterbury…

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Grafton Races Clarence River J.c. Meeting

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1938 · page 3

The March meeting of the Clarence River Jockey Club will be held on the Grafton course on Saturday, March 19, and nominations will close with the…

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Racing Taxes For Country Clubs Proposed Legislation. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1938 · page 3

Legislation to be introduced in the new Parliament provides in respect to all country racing clubs, with the exception of the provincial club, that the…

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TENNIS Grafton And Dist. Assn. Nominations Close To-day

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1938 · page 2

To-day is the last day for nominating teams for this year's Grafton and District Tennis Association competition, which will commence on March 19…

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Rugby League Country Representation On N.S.W. Control Board Conference in Sydney Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 3

A plan for greater representation in the control of Rugby League football throughout Australia was presented by the Country League on…

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Ned Again Cheered Fine Handicap Victory Grafton Greyhound Races Two Cups Presented

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 1

An outburst of cheering greeted Ned Again's splendid victory in the Grafton Greyhound Racing Club's handicap event on Saturday night, the…

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Swimming High School Carnival

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 2

The Grafton High School annual swimming carnival will be held at the Grafton baths to-morrow, the first event in a big programme commencing…

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Maclean Rowing Club Annual Regatta Proposal Adopted

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 3

The president of the Maclean Rowing Club (Mr. J. Kelly), with Messrs. R. Chand[?]er and E. Philp, who were appointed a sub-committee to arrange a…

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Bowls Interstate Competition. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 2

New South Wales defeated Victoria, 99--80: Queensland beat South Australia, 103--100, in the first day's play of the Interstate bowling tests, at North…

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TENNIS Association Annual Meeting

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 1

Delegates from Colts Harbor, Jelly, Karangi, Korora, Orara and School clubs attended the annual meeting of Coffs Harbour Tennis Association,…

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Boxing Win Foe Ganzon. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 3

The Filipino boxer, Dommy Ganzon, 9.0 convincingly outpointed Joe Hall, 9.3¼ (Australia), in a 12 rounds bout at Rushcutters' Bay Stadium to-night…

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Rugby League Team Manager Defeated. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 3

R. E. Savage, business manager of the touring Kangaroo team, oh its way home after playing in England and France, to-night, with A. Latta and J…

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