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Hunter Valley · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1949

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The Show and the Season

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 1

The Show Committee will meet on Monday next to continue its preparations for the 59th annual exhibition to be held on 5th and…

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33 Years on Show Council

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 1

SINGLETON, Friday—Messrs. H. Wright, F. Lambert and J. H. Tulloch did not seek re-election on the Northern Agricultural…

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Show Ground for Polo Ponies

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 2

Maitland Show Council, at its meeting yesterday afternoon, decided to make the show ground stables available for the Dudley…

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Local and General. Newcastle Show Entries

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 2

The Secretary of the Newcastle Show (Mr. P. G. Legoe) stated that since the publication of the schedule has been announced, enquiries have…

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1000 Show Visitors Fingerprinted

Singleton Argus · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 2

At the Wail'oa Show (New Zealand) opening police began fingerprinting 1000 visitors. They are still looking for the…

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Muswellbrook Show Committee Meeting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 1

Members of the Muswellbrook Show committee present at the meeting held at the showground yesterday were: Messrs A. S. Bowman…

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Massed Bands Display For Maitland Show

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 2

Newcastle and Northern District Associated Bands met yesterday to arrange details of the massed bands display, which will…

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Record Show Prize Money at Newcastle

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 6

Mr. P. G. Legoe, Secretary of the Newcastle A.H. and I. Association stated to-day that prize money offered for Newcastle Show, totalling [?]2500, is…

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Newcastle Show

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 2

The secretary of the Newcastle Show (Mr. P. G. Legoe) stated that since the publication of the schedule, has been…

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Holiday for Paterson Show

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 2

The secretary of Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association (Mr. R. E. Holroyde) asked Council to apply for the gazettal…

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Stream Of Entries For 1949 Show

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 1

A good stream of entries was already being received for all sections of Maitland Show and prospects for another highly…

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Newcastle Show

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 8

The secretary of the Newcastle Show (Mr. P. G. Legoe) has stated that with the closing date for entries close at hand, many enquiries have…

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Newcastle Show Schedules

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 7

The secretary of Newcastle show (Mr. P. G. Legoe) states that, with the closing date for entries close at hand, many inquiries have been…

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Newcastle Show Entries

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 2

The Secretary of the Newcastle Show (Mr. P. G. Legoe) stated that, with the closing date for entries close at hand, many…

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Gresford Show Prospects

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 4

The schedule for the Gresford 1949 Show to be held on March and 19 is in circulation, and the secretary (Mr. D. Began) says, with…

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Outlaw in Action at Wingen Carnival

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 1

GEORGE GREIG, of Scone, is the rider shown in this Carnival shot taken at the recent Wingen Boxing Day outing. Despite the high twisting of the outlaw, George rode him out. This event was won by Ron Button, of Scone…

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Exhibition of Motorways Models

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 5

Mr. Alfred Barnes, the [?] Transport, recently opened an exhibition of motorways models in London. Mr. Alfred Barnes explains a model of y road round about to Mr. T. G. Richards, engineer, and Major H. E. Aldington, Minister. of…

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Newcastle Show

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 2

The Secretary of Newcastle Show (Mr. P. G. Legoe) stated that with the closing date for entries close at hand, many enquiries have been…

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Gresford Show

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 2

The Gresford District Agricultural Society will conduct its annual show on Friday and Saturday, 18th and 19th March. There is good prize…

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Opening of Paterson Show

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 2

Colonel G. C. Somerville, secretary of the Royal Show, Sydney, has accepted the invitation to open Paterson’s First show, to…

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