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Shows & fairs, 1950

836 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 24 of 42

Show Council To Meet Trotting Association

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 4

Representatives of the Hunter Valley Trotting Breeders, Owners and Trainers’ Association have been invited to meet the sports…

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Racing Sidelights Blue Flag A Fair Bet Should Win Windsor Hdcp

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 8

The Windsor Handicap, run over seven furlongs at Randwick to-morrow, looks like being the most popular event on the…

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Show Ground Refused for Sunday Game Against English Team

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 4

A meeting of Maitland Show Council last night rejected an application by the Maitland and District Rusby [?] to allow If the…

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New Fabrics at Fashion Gowns Show Results of Long Research Work (From Barbara Stevenson, a Reuter correspondent)

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 7

LONDON: Many new fabrics specially designed for export were featured during London's wholesale fashion fortnight night which opened on May 29. Displays of textiles, including cotton, rayon, silk and…

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Junior Farmers’ Show

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 June 1950 · page 4

At a recent meeting of the Raymond Terrace Junior Farmers’ Club it was decided that the club submit regular reports to the…

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Show Steers Sold

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 4

J. Enright sold at Maitland yesterday six Shorthorn steers on behalf of Jupp Bros., Miss Colleen Jupp and Master—William…

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British Industries Fair Opens

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 21 June 1950 · page 3

The opening of the British Industries Fair at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, attracted a great flow of oversea buyers from countries all over the world. The first order from a foreign buyer at any part of the Fair was…

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Douglas Pratt Exhibition

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 June 1950 · page 10

Mr. Alan Harper has received an invitation to the exhibition of paintings by Douglas Pratt which opened at the Grosvenor Galleries in Sydney…

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Helicopter Service for British Industries Fair

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 June 1950 · page 7

The British Industries Fair, which opened recently at London and Birmingham, is linked by the first regular passenger helicopter service to be operated in Europe. This picture shows the first passenger helicopter leaving…

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Show Fat Lamb Contest

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 June 1950 · page 5

Each entrant for next year’s fat lamb contest organised by the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW will have to provide a…

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Northern Bushmen's Carnival Assn. Annual Meeting

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 June 1950 · page 3

Representatives from Scone, Murrurundi, Gunnedah, Gloucester, Dungog and Gresford attended the annual meeting of the…

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Coal Conference Urged by Liberal Industry Should Give Fair Price, Security to Miners

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 June 1950 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday.—A representative conference to discuss ways and means of increasing coal production in Australia was urged by Mr. J. O. Cramer (Lib., N.S.W.), former chairman of the Sydney County Council, speaking in…

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Travellers’ Carnival

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 24 June 1950 · page 2

MUSWELLBROOK, Sat. — At the monthly meeting of the Brentwood Hospital, Mr. R. Cousins moved that the Commercial…

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Show Carnival Association's Annual Meeting at Maitland

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 3

Agricultural Associations which are members of the Council of Agricultural Soceities are to be invited to conduct-their rodeo events under the rules of the Northern Bushmen's Carnival Association, to…

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Australian Agricultural Engineering Society Formed

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 2

Founded to promote the study and development in Australia of agricultural engineering in all its branches, the Society has followed on similar…

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Three Newspapers to Show Cause

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 3

Mr. Justice Owen in the Supreme Court Chambers to-day granted an order nisi calling on three Sydney newspapers to show cause why they,…

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Gained Music Exhibition

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 7

MARSAR[?] ROBINSON has been advised by the Secretary of the State Conservatorium of Music that she has gained the highest…

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Cessnock League Game At Show Ground

Maitland Mercury · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Friday.—Owing to the condition of the Cessnock Sports Ground through the extraordinary wet weather, it will not…

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Rugby League. Can Cessnock Down Waratah? Big Attraction at Show Ground To-morrow

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 8

The main topic of conversation by followers of Rugby League in the Cessnock district at the present time is, "Can the…

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Dungog Show

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 1 July 1950 · page 3

The 1951 Dungog Show will be held on April 20 and 21. Ken Brown, 25, of Nort[?]umberland-street, Maryville, a…

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