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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1938

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Crown Talkies Show Week Features Thin Ice and Ali Baba Goes to Town

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 6

The management of the Crown Theatre announces that it has secured the Twentieth Century-Fox musical extravaganza, "Thin…

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Show President MR. A. D. McINTOSH ELECTED To Succeed Late T. J. McCormack

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 3

Following on the lamentable death of Mr. T. J. McCormack on Tuesday of last week a special meeting of the Show Committee…

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Crookwell Show Three-Day Display Opened

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 5

CROOKWELL, Thursday: The Crookwell A., P. and H. Society's 61st annual show opened, in dull weather this morning, and will…

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Motor Service at the Show

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 March 1938 · page 10

The N.R.M.A. is making special arrangements to serve country motorists visiting the Easter Show. The association's permanent pavilion…

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Crookwell District's 61st Show Well Supported Exhibition Merits High Praise Fine Array Of Exhibits Entries Exceed 2,500 MARK Some Sections Below Par

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 18 March 1938 · page 1

Having many years ago established an enviable reputation as the show window of a district rich in all the products of the agriculturist, pastoralist and the horticulturist, the…

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Annual Show Tentative Revenue Figures Decrease on Last Year

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 2

At a meeting of the P. and A. committee on Saturday evening the hon. secretary submitted revenue figures (subject…

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F.C.T. SHOW Exhibits Good But Entries Less

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 2

Cold and showery weather adversely affected the first dlay’s attendance at the F.C.T. P. and A. Association’s twelfth annual Show…

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Goulburn Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 5

Entries from as far afield as New Zealand and Tasmania have been received for the Goulburn A.P. and H. Society's three-day…

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Oriental Wonders at Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 8

Visitors to the Goulburn Show will have the opportunoity of seeing one of the most remarkable troupes or oriental people ever assembled, on…

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"Varsity Show" New Programme at Hovts Ritz

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 7

"Varsity show" starring Dick Powell, had the first screening of its Goulburn season at the Hoyts Ritz Theatre this…

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Night Cycling Carnival League of Wheelmen's Big Fixture at Sportsground on Saturday Next Attractive Prizes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 8

On Saturday night at the sportsground the Goulburn League Cycling Club will conduct the first professional night…

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Cycle Carnival Off

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 5

Owing to the championship in Sydney, the carn val set down by the Goulburn Amateur Bicycle Club for to-night has been cancelled…

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Sixty-first Annual Show a Noteworthy Exhibition District's Soundness Exemplified Tributes To Late President

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 1

VIEWED generally the Crookwell A., P. and H. Society's sixty-first annual exhibition must be recorded as one of outstanding merit. Rightly looked upon as the shoo window of the district, its dressing on this…

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Crookwell Show Successes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 4

In addition to the awards already published, C. A. Peden, competing in the wool section at the recent Crookwell Show, was awarded first for the…

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Hoyts Ritz "Varsity Show"

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 4

"Varsity Show," that bright musical, featuring Dick Powell and Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, began a three-nights season at Hoyts…

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Show Gates £15 Better Than 1937

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 4

Gross gate takings at the Crookwell show for the three days totalled £27553, an increase of £1579 over last year's total…

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Lieder Show "Belle of New York"

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 4

After three successful nights, the Goulburn Liedertafel's musical comedy, "The Belle of New York," will draw to a close at the…

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Daring Skaters at Show Spectacular Act From Switzerland

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 8

The recent screening of the film, "Girl in a Million," starring Sonja Henie, world's champion skater, delighted and thrilled thousands of…

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Sheep and Wool at Crookwell Show Both Sections Below Strength

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 8

It would be idle to say that the exhibits in the sheep and wool sections at the Crookwell show fulfilled expectations. They…

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Splendid Horse Show Draughts Were Outstanding Ponies Not True To Type

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 1

It is doubtful whether such a fine array of horse flesh has ever been paraded at the Crookwell show than that which was…

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