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Shows & fairs, 1954

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District Footballers To Run At Balldale Carnival

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 4

The night carnival to "Celebrate the official switching on of the lights at Balldale Recreation Ground, which is set for…

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Home Exhibition Planners

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 May 1954 · page 1

Organisers of the Rural and Home Exhibition, which opens in Dalgety and Co.’s wool store, Albury, on Friday next, busy planning the hundred and one details of this tremendous exhibition. Left to right : Messrs, S. Cross, of Cross Displays (Asst.) Ply, Ltd., W. Clifford, K. Maynard, exhibition director, and M. Extons…

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Scotch Fair at St. David’s

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 May 1954 · page 6

St. David’s Scotch fair will take place in the Gillespie Hall on Wednesday, May 5, with afternoon and evening sessions…

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Flower Show Next Week

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 May 1954 · page 2

At the monthly meeting of the Albury Horticultural Society arrangements were completed for the chrysanthemum show at the…

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Balldale Night Carnival

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 May 1954 · page 9

The first night sports carnival held at Balldale on Saturday was a big success and the profit will be over £100. The event was held to mark…

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C. W. A. Exhibition Opened by Mayoress

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 3

MAYORESS, Mrs. T. E. Hetherington, officially opened the C.W.A. Handicraft exhibition. at the Masonic Hall on…

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Balldale Carnival Huge Success J. Upton Wins Championship

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 3

The first night carnival held at Balldale last Saturday night was a huge success, over £100 profit resulting…

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Red Cross Catering at the Show

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 1

At the Royal Easter Show which closed on 20th April, the Red Cross again pitched their enormous tea-tent and served…

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Church of England autumn fair

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 10

Church of England autumn fair will be held in the Parish Hall, Wodonga, on Wednesday, May 12…

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Home Exhibition Opens Here on

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 16

Workmen preparing one of the 121 stands for the opening of the Rural and Home Exhibition at Dalgety and…

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Exhibition is not a wool show

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 6

Reports that the exhibition will be a wool show are incorrect, and not one wool stand will be included…

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Nothing con whiteant this exhibition

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 2

A very comprehensive display and advisory service on the prevention and treatment of destructive vermin is…

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EDITORIAL: Vital exhibition starts to-day

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 20

THE Rural and Homes Exhibition, which opens this afternoon for a session of eight days and nights in Dalgety &…

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Rural and Home Exhibition Supplement Considerable planning for display today

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 1

Six months of hard work have been expended by the organisers to create an exhibition the size of the Albury Rural and Home Exhibition, which opens to-day in Dalgety’s wool building, Young st., at 2 p.m…

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Albury’s exhibition may be annual one Car Section an Innovation

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 11

Organisers of Albury's initial Rural and Home Exhibition, which opens at 2 p.m. today, hope that it will draw such support over its 8 days and nights as to set the seal for an annual series in this city. Organisers also declare…

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Rural, home exhibition at Albury is good

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 May 1954 · page 18

Exhibits worth more than £250,000 are displayed in Albury’s first Rural and Home Exhibition which opened yesterday. Nearly 4000 people attended during the afternoon and evening. Spread over 102,000 sq…

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Big Crowds at Flower Show

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 May 1954 · page 2

Second day of the Albury Horticultural Society’s Chrysanthemum Show yesterday attracted big crowds in the Plaza Theatre. The…

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Declaring the Rural Exhibition Open

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 May 1954 · page 1

The Mayor, Aid. Bunton, declaring the Rural and Home Exhibition in Dalgety’s Wool Store officially opened on…

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A “Must” for Everyone to See Mayor praises Albury Rural and Home Exhibition

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 May 1954 · page 1

Although such exhibitions were somewhat new to Australia as compared with Great Britain and other countries, they would be proved in this country, as they had been proved elsewhere, to be of immense and outstanding general benefit to community life…

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Organised school visits lo exhibition expected

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 13

About 170 St Joseph’s College girls attended Albury’s current Rural and Home Exhibition in Dalgety’s Young street wool store yesterday. It was the first of a series of organised visits…

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