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Hunter Valley · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1950

836 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 38 of 42

Murrurundi Bushmen's Carnival Now 1st and 2nd Decem

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 November 1950 · page 2

The hon. Secretary (Mr. P. J. Gogarty) writes : — Owing to the heavy rains, it was only with the greatest…

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Murrurundi Bushmen's Carnival New Dates December 1 and 2

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 November 1950 · page 5

The Murrurundi Bushmen's Carnival will now be held on Friday and Saturday, 1st and 2nd December, having been postponed from…

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Festival Visits the Heart of England World's Biggest Mobile Exhibition

Singleton Argus · Friday 3 November 1950 · page 6

The mobile exhibition which, in 1951, is to visit four great inland cities during the Festival summer Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Nottingham will be the world's biggest transportable covered…

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Opening of Carnival Record Entry: Fine Weather But Overcast Sky

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 November 1950 · page 2

Scone Boshmen's Carnival and Show Association opened its annual fixture today in fine weather, and should the conditions hold,…

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Doll-and Toy Show By Mothers’ Club

Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 November 1950 · page 6

MUSWELLBROOK, Monday.— The Mothers’ Club annual [?] and toy show attracted a large attendance to view the splendid…

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Spectacular Polo Exhibition

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 November 1950 · page 5

This innovation, introduced last year, and now an accepted popular line of entertainment, found favour with the crowd on…

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Gresford Bushmen’s Carnival

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 7 November 1950 · page 2

A meeting of the Gresford Bushmen’s Carnival made final arrangements for the rodeo, to be held at Gresford next Friday…

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High Jumbs Out Of Newcastle Show

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 7 November 1950 · page 3

Newcastle Show Council has decided to eliminate high jumps from the ring programme of next year’s show…

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Fair Recruit’s Smart Gallop Dynamite Again In Form At Moorefield

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 7 November 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In a trial at Rosebery to-day the imported Fair Recruit has a flight advantage over Erpingham at the end of a six furlong gallop in 1.17¼. Dynamite went in his best style…

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Carnival at its Best. Big Crowds, Despite Threatening Weather Galaxy of Talent. Horses and Those Who Rode Them Invictus Takes Big Draft

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 November 1950 · page 5

Scone's 1950 Bashmen's Show and Carnival will go down in the records, in the passing show of galaxy of talent, as one of the most successful in the history of the popular and renowned Association, which had its genesis in 1932…

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Show And Ambulance Sports Carnival

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 8 November 1950 · page 2

MUSWELLBROOK, Wed.— Members of the Muswellbrook Show Council and ambulance committees hare been presented…

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Fair And Musicale In East Maitland

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 8 November 1950 · page 3

Final arrangements have been made for the miniature fair and musicale to be held in St. Peter’s Parish Hall, Banks-st, East Maitland,…

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The International Motor Exhibition

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 9 November 1950 · page 4

The 15th International Motor Show this year was held at Earls Court London. Buyers from all over the world attended the showing of the latest models of British motor car manufacturers and of all the newly designed…

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Carnival Chips

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 November 1950 · page 1

IT WAS a grand Carnival, in which teamwork prevailed in running the elongate[?]d and interesting bill of fare,…

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Carnival High Lights Many New Features At Street Carnival

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 November 1950 · page 5

Advice received to-day from the Commercial Travellers indicates that the big street Carnival being arranged by…

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Cessnock Gladioli Show

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 10 November 1950 · page 1

One of the main reasons for the large masses of gladioli to be seen in many gardens on the coalfields is the stimulus given to their…

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Remaining Quads. Show Improvement MELBOURNE

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 November 1950 · page 2

The three remaining Moreland quads showed improvement during the flight and now have a good chance of surviving…

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"Fair And Reasonable" Earlier Payment of Income Tax by Wool-growers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 November 1950 · page 1

Speaking in the Legislative Assembly, Mr. W. A. Chaftey (C.P., Tamworth) said he agreed with the action that the Federal…

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Infants' Dolls and Toy Hunter Street Show

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 November 1950 · page 4

CHILDREN at the Hunter Street Infants' School produced a wide, range of dolls and toys…

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Diggers’ Carnival On Saturday Night

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 14 November 1950 · page 2

The RSL. carnival in Turner. Park on Saturday night next is sure to attract thousands, for Maitland public knows that the…

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