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

Shows & fairs, 1955

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Apex Club News Support Asked for Carnival

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 10 March 1955 · page 8

Yass Apex Club has been asked to run the Memorial Hall Carnival again this year, and asks the public to give the same wonderful…

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Gunning Trotters With-drawn From Show Rule Was Enforced

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 10 March 1955 · page 2

The president of Gunning Show Society refused to relax the rule requiring payment of entry fees on nomination of trotters and…

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Street Carnival Two Teams Of Marching Girls This Year

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 14 March 1955 · page 3

The Apex Club, which is organising the Memorial Hall . Carnival again this year, has received advice that a team…

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Billy Cart Derby Fever Hits the Town That Carnival Is Here Again

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 14 March 1955 · page 2

It is hard to get information about the entries in the Billy Cart Derby at the Memorial Hall Street Carnival next Saturday. Owners are guarding their secrets closely but one spy reports that the woodwork teacher at Yass Central School is…

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Big Carnival Apex Club Plans Gala

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 17 March 1955 · page 2

With only two days to go members of Yass Apex Club are busy finalising plans for its big annual…

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Sheep Shearing at Hall Show

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 17 March 1955 · page 1

A sheep shearing exhibition will be a new feature in this year’s Hall Show. The A.C.T. Pastoral and…

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Speedboat Carnival Goulburn Boat’s Double Win

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 21 March 1955 · page 2

One of the best carnivals of the season was held by the Murrumbidgee Speedb oat Club at Good Hope yesterday…

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More Than £500 From Memorial Hall Street Carnival

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 21 March 1955 · page 2

Net proceeds of the Memorial Hall Carnival held in Median Street on Saturday afternoon and die ball held in the Hall at night will be about £500. Yass Apex Club organised the Carnival again this…

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Country Bank Managers At Royal Show

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 March 1955 · page 8

Mr. Tracey, manager of the Commonwealth Bank, Yass, has announced that the Bank is again attaching two of its well-known…

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The Big Show Jerrawa Expected To Break All Records

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 March 1955 · page 2

Judging by the number of entries pouring into the secretary’s office Jerrawa Show committee is confident that…

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Art Show For Yass Suggestion By Mr. E. C. Hedley

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 31 March 1955 · page 1

Yass Municipal Council will discuss with Mr. Eric C. Hedley, a proposal to hold an art show later this year for…

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Jerrawa Show Prospects For All Time Record

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 April 1955 · page 2

Entries are pouring in for all classes at the Jerrawa Show on Easter Monday. They have come from as far away as Melbourne…

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Model Train Exhibition Coming to “Linton”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 7 April 1955 · page 6

SUNDAY, April 17, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. will be a red letter day in Yass for the young and not so young, and grannie and grandps too, when a magnificent display of moving model trains, some up to 12 feet in length, will be…

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Yass Cattle at Royal Show (By Dalgety’s News Service) Aberdeen Angus

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 7 April 1955 · page 5

Junior champion at the Royal [?]now was . the Scottish. Australian Company’s Texas Pandora, a styl[?] [?] calf by Paidrew of Kddinny…

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2,000 at Record Jerrawa Show Interest of District Centred in Best Exhibition Ever Held

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 14 April 1955 · page 3

Two thousand people from all parts of the Yass district were attracted to Jerrawa on Easter Monday by perfect weather and the promise of plenty to see and do at the 18th Annual Exhibition staged by the Jerrawa…

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Editorial the Big Show

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 14 April 1955 · page 2

STARTING as a small sports day eighteen years ago, the Jerrawa Show has become the biggest little Show on earth. If it…

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The Pavilion a Miniature Show

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 14 April 1955 · page 3

With increased entries in cooking, flowers, vegetables and needlework, the pavilion was a miniature show in…

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The Big Four Behind The Little Show

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 14 April 1955 · page 4

VETERAN, Mr. Arthur Heat, of “Woodvale,” Jerrawa, on the left, who resigned the presidency after 22 years, to become assistant secretary this year to help Mr. Tom Bush, when the latter suffered a serious illness, and there was a possibility at one stage of the show being abandoned. Mr. T. L. Bush of “Emohruo.” Jerrawa, who has been honorary secretary of the Society for 22 years is now Yass manager for Heats Motor Sales. Beside him is his “right hand man”—his wife—who has been assistant secretary for…

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“A Pleasure To Come To Jerrawa” Show Growing Yearly

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 14 April 1955 · page 3

“It is the greatest pleasure to come to Jerrawa, which is developing into a very important show with entries…

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Jerrawa Show 670 Entries In All Sections

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 18 April 1955 · page 2

The total entries in all sections of the Jerrawa Show last Monday were over 670. This is the…

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