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Mid North Coast · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1938

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Sydney Show Bowraville Hams and Bacon Win Prizes

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 2

The "News" offers congratulations to Bowraville Factory employees upon their successful efforts to maintain a high…

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Grafton Show. Big Clarence River Event. Prospects Are Bright

Macleay Argus · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 7

Dot this down, boys, in verbatim, Beauty's bowl doth overflow On the noble Clarence River When they hold the Grafton Show…

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Easter Show Display, 1938

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 23 April 1938 · page 8

A most novel clock built entirely of cycle parts, and which created a minor sensation at the last cycle show at Earl's Court, London, a few months…

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Toe Royal Show. Record Attendance

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 23 April 1938 · page 8

An enormous crowd of 150,108 persons swarmed into the Show ground on Good Friday, and paid £10,653 at the [?]iles. It brought the total…

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Show Cup Meeting

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 4

The Macleay Greyhound Racing Association is busy putting final touches to the arrangements for the Show cup meeting to be held on the…

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The Zackadeener Show

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 2

If you want thrills, see the Zackadeener Show at the Star Theatre on Thursday night, April 28th, at 8 p.m. The second half of the programme…

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Sydney Royal Show 1938

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 7

TOP.--A series of realistic stage scenes with working models, tracing the development of Australia in terms of the local growth of the petroleum industry. These scenes comprised "The Pioneer," "Mining and Manufactures," "The Woolgrower," "The Wheatgrower" and "Modern…

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Wessex Saddleback Pigs at Show

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 4

Mr. Bruce P. Stephens, of Deloraine Stud, Newrybar, via Bangalow, arrived in Kempsey on Sunday last with a splendid team of Wessex…

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Stroud Show. Many Local Winners

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 2

The Stroud and District Agricultural and Horticultural Association's 17th annual show, which was concluded on Saturday, was the most successful…

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Royal Show Record. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 3

All records were broken in the takings at the Royal Show which concluded on Saturday night. The total attendance was 1,011,241, and…

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Wingham Show. Rainy To-day — Sunshiny To-morrow

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 2

Wingham Show opens to-morrow (Wednesday). The weather to-day does not look too promising, but the Wingham weather Prophet has every…

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Allport's Better Talkies. "Make A Wish" For Show Nights

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 1

The silver throated Bobby Breen, youngest of the screen's great singers, plays the role of a veritable cupid, in "Make a Wish," his newest musical…

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"Captain January." Liberty's Show Nights Attraction. Stars Shirley Temple

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 4

Shirley Temple, with Guy Kibbee and Slim Summerville, will entertain patrons of the Liberty Theatre on Wendesday and Thursday (Show…

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Grafton Show

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 5

That former Kempsey boy, Len. Lawson, secretary of the Clarence P. &. A. Society, tells us:—The Show at Grafton, which will start on May 4…

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Side-show Attractions. Unique Waxworks

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 6

The value of the entertainment provided by the Electrical Waxworks, to be exhibited at Kempsey show, says a contributor, lies in truth displayed in…

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Mondrook Show Junior Farmers Splendid Effort

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 1

Glorious weather greeted the fourth annual show of the Mondrook Junior Farmers' Club on Saturday last. The exhibits were displayed in the school,…

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Mondrook J.F. Fourth Annual Show. Splendid Exhibition

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 2

Glorious weather greeted the fourth annual show of the Mondrook Junior Farmers' Club on Saturday last The exhibits were displayed in the school…

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A Bright Entertainment "Zackadeener" Show

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 2

A very bright entertainment was provided by members of the Comedy Players and assisting artists in the Star Theatre last night. The one-act…

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Wingham Show. 53rd EXHIBITION. Officially Opened By Mr. T. J. Hartigan

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 30 April 1938 · page 8

On Wednesday and Thursday—two days and one night—the 63rd annual, exhibition of the Upper Manning Agricultural and Horticultural…

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Guessing Competitions at Wingham Show

The Northern Champion · Saturday 30 April 1938 · page 4

The greasing competitions at thee Wingham Show resulted as follows:- The exact weight of the pig (125½ lbs.) was correctly guessed by 12…

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