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Illawarra · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1948

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Dapto 1948 Show

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 1 January 1948 · page 8

Entries are coming in freely for Dapto Show to be held on Friday and Saturday, 9th. and 10th, January…

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Varied New Classification 1948 Royal Easter Show

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 1 January 1948 · page 3

After consultation with Australian Red Cross Society representatives engaged in the organisation of handicrafts for Service Men and…

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Dapto 1948 Show

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 1

Dapto Show opens to-morrow and the committee has met and finalised arrangements. Mr. Pudsey Dawson's…

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Albion Park Show

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 16

The society has now completed arrangements for its 1948 show on Jan. 17 and indications point to a very successful day…

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Kennel Club Show

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 3

The Wollongong and District Kennel Club held another successful show on the Wollongong Showground on Sunday, Dec. 21. Dog fanciers have lost…

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Dapto's Splendid Show Record Gate Takings Both Days

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 1

Attendance figures at Dapto's show last Friday and Saturday created new records. Friday's gate takings of £115 were three times greater than the previous year. A verage takings on the first day, usually called Members' Day, is £20, while Saturday's figure was…

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Record Takings at Dapto Show Ideal Weather Draws Large Crowds

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 4

The several thousand people who visited the annual Show of the Dapto A. & H. Society last Friday and Saturday, paid £372 to be admitted as compared with £271 last year. Gate takings the first day were £11; and the second £257…

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Albion Park Show

Kiama Independent · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 3

At the time of going, to press yesterday (Friday) afternoon, the Committee of the Albion Park A. and H. Society had decided to postpone the…

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Kiama Show

Kiama Independent · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 4

The Secretary reports:— Next Saturday and Monday, 24th and 26th January, will see the staging of Kiama's Centenary…

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International Photography Exhibition

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 3

Opened on Monday last and showing until Sunday, January 25, Wollongong Camera Club's Third Exhibition of International Photography is housed…

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Kiama Show

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 2

The last meeting of the Kiama Agricultural Society was devoted to making final arrangements for the Centenary Show on Saturday and…

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Alb. Park Show a Triumph for the District

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 1

Albion Park's 54th. Annual Show, [?] last Saturday, will go down in the annals of the town as a triumph for the local A.H. and I. Association and the district Despite appalling weather for three weeks before the event, the Association backed its district and the…

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Kiama Show

Kiama Independent · Saturday 24 January 1948 · page 3

At the time of going to press yesterday (Friday) the weather was warm and sultry and it appeared as though the next day would dawn fine…

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Governor of N.S.W. Opens Kiama Show

Kiama Independent · Wednesday 28 January 1948 · page 4

Highlight of the Show on Saturday last was the visit of the Governor of New South Wales, Lieut. General John Northcott, C.B., M.V.O., to…

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C.r.m. Annual Show

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 6
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

A lush season combined with the forty hour week gives promise of the most outstanding C.R.M. Arts, Crafts, Horticulture and Hobbies Show on…

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Sth. Coast Bicycle Club's MacCabe Park Carnival

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 18

Once again cycling [?] were treated to a good afternoon's entertainment last Sunday. The [?] of Ern Scotton…

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Royal Show Dairy Cattle Judges Announced

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 2

Col. G. C. Somerville, secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales, announces that the following judges will officiate in the…

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Wollongong Show 3 Days—3 Nights

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 7

For this year Wollongong Society have added another night programme, this being on the Friday night and full details are now…

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FODDER For 1948 Royal Show

Kiama Independent · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 3

The Royal Agricultural Society has let this year's tender for fodder to the Producer's Co-operative Distributing Society Ltd. This is in…

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