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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1954

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Suggestions To Reduce Show Catalogue Loss

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 January 1954 · page 3

FURTHER tentative suggestions towards reducing any loss on the catalogue for the Havvkesbury…

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Show We Need "Dog Secretary"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 3

THE need for appointment of a "dog secretary" to devote his whole time to the dog section at the Hawkesbury Show was…

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Rearrangement Of Show Business Displays

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 February 1954 · page 2

A plan to move the industrial displays at the coming Mawkesbery Show to a more central position than formerly, so that they would occupy…

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Buttons To Be Sold At Show

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 February 1954 · page 7

Requesting permission to sell Hospital Saturday buttons at the Hawkesbury Show, the Hawkesbury District…

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Show Holiday Application

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 8

The usual request to the Windsor Council and Colo Shire Council to make application for March 12, the Friday…

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Show Request Refused

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 4

A request by the Londonderry Co-operative Community Advancement Society Ltd, for permission to conduct a…

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24 Fair Rent Decisions in 45 Minutes!

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 3

PRACTISED ease was shown by a magistrate, sitting as a Fair Rents Board at Windsor on February 12…

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"Long-Winded" Show Donors

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 1

Learning that prizes promised by donors for last Show had not yet been paid in some instances, the February…

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Novel Show Contest Will Appeal

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 10

IT would seem, from conditions approved at the February meeting of the show council, that the tractor…

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Show Holiday

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 5

Observing the customary practice of closing on one half day during the Hawkesbury Show, the Richmond…

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Tenders Show Rights

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 3

Tenders for rights at the Hawkesbury Show were received by the February meeting of the show council, and…

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Wanted Stands At Show

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 8

A request by the Londonderry Community Co-operative Society Ltd. for permission to conduct a stand at…

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Show Parade to Be Hour Later

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 9

TO allow for the cattle judging to be completed, the Show grand parade will be put back an hour, to 3…

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Dog Edict Was Shock For Show Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 2

The dog section of the Hawkesbury Show this year would not be recognised by the R.A.S. Kennel Club as a competition for championship points…

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Show Gate Taking

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 March 1954 · page 1

Gate taking at last week's Hawkesbury Show were £6 on Thursday (£12 last year), £244 on Friday (£289), and…

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Farm Produce Another Show Fiasco

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 March 1954 · page 12

JUDGING only from the number of entries in the farm produce section of this year's Hawkesbury…

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Drop In Show Taking Despite Good Weather

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 March 1954 · page 1

Despite three days of ideal weather, Public patronage off the Hawkestary Show on Thursday, Friday and Saturday last, as shown by gate takings, was very noticeably less on each day than that of the previous year…

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Show Tractor Contest Was Instant Success

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 9

Introduced for the first time at the Hawkesbury Show, the tractor-driving contest on the Friday proved an instant success with…

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Food Production Stressed At Show Opening

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 3

The traditional importance of this district as supplier of a very large proportion of the foodstuffs of the city area was stressed by Mr. B. S. L…

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Inter-District Contest Big Show Feature

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 10

Everything in the main pavilion at the Hawkesbury Show this year was again overshadowed toy the two magnificent exhibits staged by the…

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