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Mid North Coast · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1942

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To the Lads at Home. "Australia Fair."

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1942 · page 5

Australia is a land so fair, And you've got to fight if the Japs. get there; Everyone must shoulder his gun…

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The 1942 Show?

Macleay Argus · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 4

On Wednesday next, March 4, a meeting of the committee of the C.N.C.N. Agricultural Association will be held at the Masonic Hall,…

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Fair Rents Court

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 8

In the Fair Rents Court, before Mr. G. W. Brown, P.M., at Kempsey on Wednesday, Reginald Frank Turner, tenant of premises in Bissett…

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Britain's Critics Free Speech and Fair Play

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 8

It is typical of the free speech inheritance of British people that they should direct their challenges at one another in public. No small…

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Annual Show Abandoned War and Petrol Shortage

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 4

There will not be the usual annual exhibition of the C.N.C.N. Agricultural Association, Kempsey, this year. Ths decision was regretfully…

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Britain's Critics Free Speech and Fair Play

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 11 March 1942 · page 3

It is typical of the free-speech inheritance of inheritance people that they should direct their challenges at one another in public. No small wonder,…

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Britain's Critics. Free Speech and Fair Play

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 11 March 1942 · page 6

It is typical of the free-speech inheritance of British people that they should direct their challenges at one another in public. No small wonder, then,…

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Fair Rents Board. Interesting Case at Kempsey

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 11 March 1942 · page 1

At Kempsey Court on Wednesday, before Mr. G. W. Brown, P.M., Reginald Frank Turner, of Bissett-street, East Kempsey, applied for a…

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Japs May Be Fair to A.i.f

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 13 March 1942 · page 3

Major-General Gordon Bennett is confident that Australian prisoners of war will receive fair treatment from the Japanese…

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Kempsey Red Cross. Floor Show Arrangements

Macleay Argus · Friday 20 March 1942 · page 5

Arrangements are going ahead rapidly and smoothly for the floor show to be held at the Memorial Hall on Friday night next, March 27. Mrs…

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Red Cross Floor Show

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 24 March 1942 · page 2

The Memorial Hall should prove a popular rendezvous on Friday night next when the Red Cross Society stages its floor show. This type of…

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Novelty Floor Show

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 25 March 1942 · page 4

Next Friday night at a Novelty Floor Show in the Memorial Hall, at 8 o'clock there will be vocal solos by Mrs. Ladd, Mrs. O'Dell and Miss…

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Red Cross Floor Show Unique Entertainment

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 5

The Red Cross Society's floor show and dance held at the Memorial Hall, Kempsey, on Friday night proved a most popular function, and the funds…

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Floor Show

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 2

The Floor Show in the Memorial Hall On Friday evening was a very bright and novel entertainment, and Mrs. Frank Nolan and her assistants…

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Drought Effect on Incomes From Dairy Farms Producer Not Getting Fair Deal

Macleay Argus · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 7

"The return of better seasonal conditions to the North Coast dairy country is bringing a measure of relief to farmers as far…

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Another Show

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 15 April 1942 · page 4

The What Nonsense Revue Company will be presenting "All Aboard" and "A Night in Honolulu" on Thursday and Friday nights of next week, in…

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Methodist Flower Show

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1942 · page 4

The annual Methodist flower show, held in the Oxley Hall on Thursday afternoon and evening of last week, was a very successful function. There…

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Pet and Doll Show

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 2

At the West Kempsey school, commencing 2.30 Friday next, May 1, the Mothers' Club will conduct a pet and doll she win aid of club funds,…

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Fair Rents Court Wingham, Friday, April 24, 1942. Before Mr. G. W. Brown, P.M. Fair Rent Application

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 2

Percy William Hain v. Fanny Louisa Bird. This was a claim for determination of fair rent under the National…

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Warrell Creek C. of E. Flower Show

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 2

A flower and vegetable show, with cooking competition, was held at Warrell Creek on Saturday, April 11th, in aid of the Church of…

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