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Hunter Valley · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1954

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Aberdeen News Rain Hampered New Year's Eve Carnival

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 4

Rain on Thursday night last greatly hampered the R.S.L. Club in conducting their New Year's Eve carnival and dance,…

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Successful Junior Cricket Carnival Northern N.S.W. Team To Tour New Zealand

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 5

Three Maitland cricket colts will tour New Zealand as members of the Northern N.S.W. team as a result of outstanding performances of the junior carnival at Tamworth last week-end…

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Newcastle Show

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 2

The 1954 Newcastle Show will be held on February 24 to 27, four days and four nights…

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Newcastle Show

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 11
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

Readers' attention is drawn to an advertisement appearing in this issue in connection with the 1954 Newcastle…

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Junior Carnival at Tamworth Gunnedah

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 7

The Hunter valley colts team won the J. S. White Shield in the North West Cricket Council's Junior…

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Tomatoes Show Low Disease Incidence

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 3

A survey of tomato crops in the Liverpool district carried oat by biologists of the Department of…

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Wingen Record Carnival Gross Takings, £750 Vivid's Big Draft

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 9

The committee and all in any way connected with Wingen Bushmen's Carnival and Show Association are to be warmly congratulated on the outstanding, even all-time record, success of…

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Big Cycling Carnival Central Coast Zone Hold Rally at Mus Wellbrook Track

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 1

On Sunday next, January 10, all clubs within the Central Coast zone of the League of New South Wales Wheelmen…

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle FRIDAY, 8th JANUARY, 1954. Hunter Valley Wins Popular Cricket Carnival (Reprinted from the Gunnedah "Independent".)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 3

Hunter Valley Cricket Council won the New England Cup, presented by Mr. C. H. Wyndham in the inter-Council Cricket Carnival which concluded on Monday week last…

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Cage Bird Exhibition

Singleton Argus · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 2

At the Young Bird Exhibition held at Hamilton by the Newcastle Cage Bird Society on Saturday Singleton…

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Show Schedules

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 2

Upper Hunter P. and A. Society's schedules for the 1954 Show will be available for distribution' next week…

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Great Expectations For Paterson Show

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 2

Peterson Show Society officials are greatest show yet at that centre, recent rains having dispelled the only doubt they had held. The show secretary (Mr. S…

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Big Horse Show at Bowral Based on Olympic Standards

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 4

A combined horse show and one-day event, based on Olympic equestrian standards, will be held by the…

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Newcastle Show

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 2

Readers' attention is drawn to an advertisement appearing in this issue in connection with the 1954 Newcastle…

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Show Boy Fell From Track

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 2

Arthur Wright, 12. of McDonald street Telarah, was treated by Maitland Ambulance for lance for a lacerated…

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To Judge At Sydney Show

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 2

SINGLETON: Mrs. A[?] Bionle, of Mnerannle, is named among 12 women who will judge the arts and headicra[?]…

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Newcastle Show May Be Biggest Yet

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 5

The 1954 Newcastle Show, which opens on February 24 will last for four days and nights and is…

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Exhibition Building Was Vast Aviary

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 10

London’s Olympia, where many of Britain’s major exhibitions and trade fairs are staged was converted into a…

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Mother Lent Child For Exhibition

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK: A report that a six-months-old illegitimate child had been lent by his mother to Eastern Illinois…

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