Rough Riders and Sydney Show
SYDNEY. — Australia's best rough riders were refusing to appear at the lioyal Easter Show, the vice-president of the Rough…
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Shows & fairs, 1947
546 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 28
Scotland To Hold Industrial Exhibition Shipbuilding and Textiles Will Have Pride of Place
Scotland is to hold a big exhibition next August, when visitors will be able to see the scope and enterprise of its many industries. It will be known as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cycling Carnival at Zinc Oval Tomorrow
THE Zinc Corporation Cycling Club has received more than 80 nominations for the carnival to be held tomorrow in aid of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cycling Carnival Tomorrow At Zinc Oval
Tomorrow afternoon at the Zinc Oval over 80 competitors will contest 20 events for prizemoney totalling £25. The cycling carnival is being conducted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All Records Are Shattered Sydney Show Draws Big Crowds
Sydney, March 30.—The attendance records for the opening day of the Royal Easter Show were shattered yesterday when 93,460 people passed through the turnstiles. Show officials, many with more than 20 years' experience expect…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broken HUI Man's Exhibition Win
Mr. A. J. Manderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Manderson, of 101 Patton Street, South Broken Hill, has won the first prize silver…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Royal Show High Quality Of Cattle
Sydney, March 31.—Many of the estimated 30,000 people attending today failed to get meals because of congestion. There was a record entry of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Baby Show
Judges had a difficult tusk at a successful baby show held yesterday by members of the Pride of the Princess Juvenile Branch…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local Success at S.a. Exhibition
In the Adelaide Exhibition, Mrs. H. A. Woodhead, 479 Chapple Lane, won a Bronze Medal, second prize, for shawl knitting. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Records Broken At Sydney Show
Sydney, April 1—Attendance and money records will be established at Sydney's first post-war Paster Show. There are seven days six nights to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Locals' Successes in Adelaide Exhibition
Two [?] residents were [?] with their entries in the Adelaide Exhibition, which commenced recently. They were Mrs. H. A. Woodhead of 470…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Record Crowds At Sydney Show
SYDNEY..— Including yesterday's record figure of 115,626, the first four days of this year's Royal Easter Shaw.— the first…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Royal Show Will Collect £1650 As Rain Insurance
SYDNEY..—The Royal Show Committee which has taken out a.—32,000 rain insurance policy for the Easter Show will collect…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crowds Flock to Oakbank for Big Easter Carnival
ADELAIDE. — Thousands have already flocked to Oakbank for the opening of the Easter racing carnival in spite of the cancellation of trains. Under the pines and gums of the camping ground a record crowd…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Show Records All Broken Police To Control Crowd
Sydney, April 6—More than a quarter of a million people made an all time attendance record of the Royal Easter Show yesterday and lost night. The official attendance figure is 259,829, the previous best being 200,376 on Good Friday of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Show Records
SYDNEY.—By 6 o'clock tonight, when Sydney's first postwar Easter Show concludes, it is estimated that nearly 1,400,000…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Show Workers Clash
SYDNEY.—R.A.S. officials and show workers clashed in several scuffles at the pay oflice last night and the men today refused…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Poultry, Kennel Club Show
The Silver City Poultry and Kennel Club Committee hus decided to conduct a show on the Western Oval on May 18 and to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ex-Interstate And Carnival Man To Coach Wests
Mr. Tom Kellaway, wellknown in South Australia, Victoria and West Australian football circles as a prominent…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Show
Sydney, April 10.—It has been announced that the aggregate attendance at the Royal Show was 1,243,413…
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