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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1942

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Rugby League Crookwell Defeated

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 17 June 1942 · page 1

Crookwell's football team was beaten by 10 points to 3 when it met the Goulburn representative side in a return match at League Park…

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Rugby Red Cross: Work of The local Branch

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 June 1942 · page 7

Principal business dealt with at the monthly meeting of the Rugby Branch of the Red Cross Society was consideration of the…

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Bowls Notes King's Birthday Play

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 June 1942 · page 5

For the first time in well over a quarter of a century our bowlers were at home on the June holiday, and the long sequence of visits to…

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Tennis Notes Winter Competition

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 June 1942 · page 5

The start of the winter teams' competition last Saturday provided something of a record, as every competitor…

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Bevendale Tennis Patriotic Tournament

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 June 1942 · page 5

BEVENDALE: The patriotic tennis tournament held in May attracted the usual number of players, and £1/13/6 was raised for the Gunning…

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Goulburn Golf Club Week-end Play

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 22 June 1942 · page 2

Despite the fact that it interfered with their game to some extent, the members of the Goulburn Golf Club were pleased to see casual water…

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Tennis Notes Winter Competition

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 25 June 1942 · page 5

As no play was possible last Saturday owing to the wather, Round 2 of the winter competition will be played this week-end…

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Gunning News Shire Council Swimming Pool Trustees

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 June 1942 · page 4

Cr. J. E. Stone presided at the June meeting of the Gunning Shire Council. Present also were Councillors W. M. Barbour, F. Chappie,…

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Tully Park Golf

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 26 June 1942 · page 2

Members of the Tully Park Golf Club should note that the qualifying rounds of the Club Championship will be played next Sunday afternoon,…

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Racing in South Africa

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 26 June 1942 · page 3

CAPETOWN, Thursday: Horse racing in South Africa will cease for the duration of the war after the Durban July Handicap is run on Saturday…

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Bowls Notes No Murray Cup Play

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 26 June 1942 · page 5

Heavy rain overnight on Friday settled all [?]ances of a game on Saturday, and the umpires declared the [?] unfit for the last bowlers…

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Football

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 29 June 1942 · page 2

The game between ,the Air Cadets and Ex-students, played on Sunday at Victoria Park, ended in a win for the Ex-students by ,16 points to 6…

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Ron Miles Parramatta Boxing Win

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 June 1942 · page 2

Ron Miles, promising Goulburn middleweight, added a knock-out to his list of wins when he defeated Hal Morgan in the fifth round of…

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Dog Racing Control Mr. Baddeley Perturbed

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 June 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley, yesterday told representatives of organisations connected with the control of greyhound racing that…

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Goulburn Dog Racing Praise By The Secretary

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 July 1942 · page 3

Speaking at the annual meeting of the Goulburn A., P. and H. Society yesterday afternoon, the secretary, Mr. H. L. Broadhead, stated that dog…

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Football

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1942 · page 4

Harden Convent School beat Murrumburrah on Wednesday last at Roberts' Park, by 26 points to 13. The scorers for Harden were R. Miller…

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Associate Golf

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 2 July 1942 · page 2

The following is the draw for Sunday next: Mrs. Stehr v. Mrs. Hulls, Mrs. O’Brien v. Mrs. W. T. Walker, Miss Morris v. Mrs. Pratten,…

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Tennis Notes Rain Upsets Matches

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 2 July 1942 · page 5

After three weeks' play in the Winter Teams' Competit on, not one match has been completed. Rain has topped the points score so far,…

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Rugby

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 July 1942 · page 2

During the past month Rugby and district residents have been doing a fair share of entertaining local lads home on leave. Firstly, on…

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Rugby Dance

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 July 1942 · page 5

A dance in aid of the Prisoners of War Fund and Rugby Red Cross will be held in the Rugby Hall on Friday, 10th July…

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