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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1924

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Harvest King May Not Start During A.J.C. CARNIVAL Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 April 1924 · page 4

Harvest King is not likely to start during the A.J.C. autumn meeting, having sprained a ligament while galloping at Randwick yesterday…

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Empire Exhibition. £2,500,000 Spent to Date on Displays at Wembley Another Million to Be Spent (Reuter's Message.) London, April 1

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 April 1924 · page 1

Dominion representatives have submitted a scheme for an Entire pageant, which the main committee has accepted. On the first day there will…

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Railway Carnival to Be Held in Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 April 1924 · page 3

During April the interstate railway football carnival will be held in Adelaide. The function alternates between most of the State capitals. It is…

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Swimming Carnival. Junior Technical School

Barrier Miner · Friday 4 April 1924 · page 4

At the City Baths this afternoon the scholars of the Junior Technical School held their annual swimming carnival. The events were generally…

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Sydney Show Activities Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 4 April 1924 · page 1

Over 2080 men are now employed on building operations at tbo Sydney Show Grounds making preparations for the coming show, which the secretary says…

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Empire Exhibition. Australian Executive Gives Luncheon in London (Reuter's Message.) London, April 3

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 April 1924 · page 1

S[?]tor R. V. Wilson presided at a l[?] to-day given by the Australian Exhibition Executive Council at Australia House. Mr. Sidney Webb,…

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Wood Defeats Patterson Tn Exhibition Match Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 April 1924 · page 3

In exhibition games at Bendigo on Saturday P. O'Hara Wood defeated Gerald Patterson, 6—8, 6—4. Patterson and Wertheim defeated…

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Silver City Show. Meeting of Committee

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 April 1924 · page 2

A meeting of the Silver City Show Committee was held at the South Broken Hill Jockey Club's rooms on Thursday, Mr. L. H. Hammond…

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SPORTING. (Continued from Page 3.) Local Racing Easter Carnival

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 April 1924 · page 4

The L.V.R.C. and the S.B.H.J.C. will hold race meetings.on the Broken Hill racecourses on Easter Saturday and Easter Monday respectively…

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Murder of a Grazier. Crown Prosecutor Outlines Case Against Fair Hand Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 April 1924 · page 4

In the Central Criminal Court to day Thomas Mitchell (16½). a farm hand. was charged with the murder of Richard Pethyridge, junior (36), a…

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Empire Exhibition. 24G Boy Scouts to Depart at End of This Month Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 April 1924 · page 4

A contingent, of 240 boy scouts from Australia, including 73 from New South Wales, will leave for the British Empire Exhibition at the end of this…

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Empire Exhibition. to Be Opened by King George on Morning of April 23 (Reuter's Message.) London, April 9

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 April 1924 · page 1

Arrangements have been completed for King George, who will be accompanied by Queen Mary, to open the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley…

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Silver City Show. Meeting of Committee

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 2

A meeting of the Silver City Show committee was held in the South Broken Hill Jockey Club's rooms last night, Mr. L. Hammond presiding…

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Persian Sacred Gates to Be Show at Wembley

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 2

A romance worthy of an Arabian Nights fantasy is revealed by the re cent discovery in London of copies of a pair of sacred gates from the…

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Crowd of 300,000 Assembles to Witness Water Carnival Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 1

Some idea of the crush at last night's water carnival in honor of the fleet can be afforded by tho fact that a solid body of people swept the vicinity of…

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Crowd of 300,000 Assembles to Witness Water Carnival Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 2

Some idea of the crnsh at last night's water carnival in honor of the fleet can he afforded by the fact that a solid body of people swept the vicinity of…

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Silver City Show

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 April 1924 · page 2

Mr. A. R Hall, seaiwtsry of the[?] ver City Show, states that he has received a gold medal which, is to be presented to the competitor showing the…

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Sydney Royal Show. Cattle Judged To-day Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 April 1924 · page 1

The Sydney Royal Show was opened to-day when the cattle were judged. The entries for all classes at the show this year reveal an increase of about 16 per…

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Empire Exhibition. Overtime Rule Relaxed at Request of Mr. Thomas Unionists Are Thanked (Reuter's Message.) London, April ll

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 April 1924 · page 1

Mr. J. H. Thomas, Colonial Secretary, addressing the workers nt Wembley, thanked them on behalf of the Cabinet and country for their decision…

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League of Wheelm[?] Easter Carnival

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 April 1924 · page 1

The annual cycling car[?]l of the Barrier Centre of the New So[?]k Wales League of "Wh[?] will be opened on the Western Oval-on [?]…

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