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Hunter Valley · Sport

Sport, 1945

2,261 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 52 of 114

Turf Review Racing Changes

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 June 1945 · page 5

Randwick has a respite from [?] for three weeks, and during the spell the track may bare [?] opportunity to recuperate…

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Bowls Rinks to Visit Maitland Next

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 June 1945 · page 3

Six local rinks will visit East Maitland on Saturday next, June 30, to play teams from that club. Rinks selected are as follows:…

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Amazing Incident at Football Meeting President Had to Survive Censure Motion

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 June 1945 · page 3

Most amazing incident in football activities of this season occurred on Monday night, when a motion was moved that a clause…

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Football

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 28 June 1945 · page 2

Raymond Terrace defeated Stockton on the Raymond Terrace ground on Saturday, after a lively game in the water, by 13 to 10. The game opened up early with…

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East Maitland Bowls Teams

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 28 June 1945 · page 3

The following selections are made for four rinks for Saturday at Lorn Park Club to take part in the progressive fours, and…

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Swimming Baths

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 4

Dungog Parents and Citizens Association wrote requesting consideration of the question of erecting, public swimming baths in Dungog. The Town…

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Cessnock Bowls

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 6

Owing to the wet weather, no bowls have been played for the past three weeks. Rink games will be the order of the…

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Football

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 2
Also in The Scone Advocate

A team will be picked from the following to play Karuah at Karuah on Saturday:—D. and K. Redman, Convery, Tarran Black, D. and P. Ryan…

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Cessnock Tennis

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 2

Owing to the courts being under water last week-end, no play was possible in the winter mixed competition and consequently all…

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Maitland-Kurri Junior Rugby League

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 3

After a lapse of two weeks, two first-class Junior games will be played at the Kurri Kurri ground on Sunday. At 2 o'clock, Kurri and…

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Stroud Golf Club Ball

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 2

Arrangements for the Stroud Golf Club Ball are well in hand and indications point to a "bumper" night. Regarded locally as the social event…

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Rugby League Kurri Expects to Win

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 6

Kurri's team will be the strongest which has taken the field since they defeated Balmain in the Cup tie. S. Stoddart will return to the second…

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Football. Teams for

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 2

Wanderers reserve grade to play Army No. 4 at Bowman Park on Sunday next, play to commence at 1.30 p.m.: R. Walmsley, F. Spence, K…

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Coalfields Rugby League Derby. CESSNOCK v. Kurri Kurri

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 6

All roads will lead to Kurri Kurri to-morrow, when the second and final Coalfields Rugby League Derby of the season…

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Raise Standards Of All Races

Maitland Mercury · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY Friday—Commenting on the White Australia policy. Professor A. P. Elkin, Professor of Anthropology at Sydney…

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Moorefield Races To-morrow Selections

Singleton Argus · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 6

Fixed Weight Maiden, 1 mile.—Yar rawonga, Pennicuik, Manakau. Nursery Handicap. 6 furlongs.— Moongalba. Pension, Don Giovanni…

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Cricket to Be Revived Public Meeting Decides

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 2

There was a good attendance at the meeting convened by Mr. F. H. Robinson at the Globe Cafe on Wednesday night despite the bitterly cold wind…

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Week-end Football Two Civilian Teams to Play in Town

Singleton Argus · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 5

Both civilian A grade teams, South and St. Patrick's, are drawn to meet Army combinations on town grounds in…

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Tennis Balls Helped to Beat the Magnetic Mine. How English Scientists Got the Advantage Over Hitler

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 2

23,000,000 tennis balls, the entire wartime output of the United Kingdom, were used by British scientists to defeat the German magnetic mine…

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