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Murray · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1949

611 stories in Murray's papers · page 25 of 31

No Show Holiday for Wodonga Children

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 October 1949 · page 11

The Victorian Education Department has issued instructions that no show holidays can be observed till the end of the year,…

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News From Wangaratta This Week's Show

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 October 1949 · page 5

WANGARATTA, Tues.: Good entries have been received in all sections for the show on Friday and Saturday next. Entries in…

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It is People's Day at Albury Show Today

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 October 1949 · page 7

FOR the third year in succession, rain yesterday marred the opening of the Albury Show Society's 95th annual exhibition. Early morning sunshine which gave promise of fine weather following weekend rainstorms was short-lived. Before noon the sky was…

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What the Camera Saw at the Albury Show Yesterday Poultry Judge At Work:—

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 October 1949 · page 6

Poultry judge, Mr W. McGilvray, Goulburn, at work at the Albury Show yesterday. The bird in the lower left pen is Mr Norm Frauefider's champion white leghorn…

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Entertainment at Today's Show

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 9

As the ground dried out so well yesterday, visitors to today's show should find the ground quite dry…

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Albury Show Awards Ring Events PONIES

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 9

Boy rider 14 years and under 16, K. Sutherland jnr 1, J. Williams 2, J. G. Odewahn's Bimbo 3; 12 and under 14, Leo Dwyer 1, G. Blakely 2,…

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“People’s” Day At Albury Show: Over 9000 Attend

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 7

YESTERDAY was People's Day at the Albury Show. Brilliant spring sunshine lured thousands of people to the show Grounds, and although conditions became cloudy during afternoon, the weather remained fine. Albury residents availed…

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Camera Highlights of the Albury Show on People's Day

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 6

TWO CHAMPION RIBBONS.— MRS K. D. WATSON, wodonga, was awarded champion in the harness pony and tarnont section at the Albury Show yesterday. Sis accompanied by her daughter, Rosemary. A section to the light horse class photographed during the Grand Parade at the Albury Show…

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Show President Satisfied

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 7

President of Albury Show Society (Mr Ralph Ellis) said last night that he was very satisfied with the result of the show…

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Holbrook Show Entries Good

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 2

Entries for Holbrook Show, to be held next Friday and Saturday, are better than was expected. There are good entries in the…

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Albury Show Takings Down

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 1

Although gate takings for the three days were nearly £200 below last year's figure, Albury Show Society officials…

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North Flower Show Next Year

The Pastoral Times · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 3

North Progress Association, at its monthly meeting last Friday night, decided to hold a flower show in North Hall in…

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Business Men Discuss Show Holidays

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 2

FROM his observations and conversation with many people at the show yesterday, the Sho w Society seemed out of touch with commercial and industrial interests in Albury. The closing of Dean street shops would not make or break the agricultural show…

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Church of England Flower Show

The Pastoral Times · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 1
Also in The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register

The annual fair and flower show conducted by the members of St. Paul’s Ladies’ Guild will be held in the Town Hall on…

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Show Ends In Drizzling Rain

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 7

ALBURY'S 95th annual show ended yesterday in drizzling rain in the presence of fewer than 1500 people. Show society officials attributed the…

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District Successes at Albury Show

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 1

At the Albury show this week Mr. Amos Dickins of Farieton Stud, Corowa gained the following successes in the Clydesdale sections…

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Suggests a Two-day Show at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 8

PRESIDENT of Culcairn Sho w Society (Mr. J. A. Balfour) suggested yesterday that Albury Show Society should seriously consider reducing its show to two-day affair. "At present Albury is making a mistake in running a three-day show. There are not…

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Cattle Entries Outstanding at Culcairn Show Judge Congratulates Shorthorn Breeders

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 1

Mr. L. Dugdale, of Bacchus Marsh, president of the Victorian branch of the Shorthorn Society, who judged the Shorthorns at Culcaixn's 36th annual show last Saturday, said the cattle would not be out of place in any Royal Show in Australia, and the breeders were to be…

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Getting Together Over the Show

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 October 1949 · page 2

Discussion provoked by the Albury Chamber of Commerce decision-to recommend only one half holiday for the Show gives promise of leading, to useful results. The chamber had given no official explanation for its attitude before the Show,…

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