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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1921

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Down for the Show Mr. and Mrs. Cockie All The Things They Saw

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 26 March 1921 · page 6

Mr. and Mrs. Cockle and the Cockle family, of Cockle Creek, spent a delightful day at the Show. They came early before the crowd. Mrs. Cockle…

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Expert Opinions Danish Agricultural Scholar Visitors at the Show Products of World Interest

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 26 March 1921 · page 6

Mr. Elnar Ostergaard, the winner of a Danish Government travelling scholarship around the world, has been for a month in Australia investigating…

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Belmont. Soldiers' Memorial Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 March 1921 · page 5

The effort made on Saturday in aid of the fund for the erection of the soldiers' memorial hall was crowned with success. The literary institute and its grounds…

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Lady Riders at the Show

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 March 1921 · page 1

One of the attractive features of this year's Royal Sydney Show has been as usual a series of ring events in which lady riders have taken part. A row of seven of these appears in the picture. Reading from left to right, the ladies are: Miss Ida powell, Miss Lee, Mrs. W. Mitchell, Miss [?] and Miss [?]…

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Dogs' Day Again Crowds at the Show Police Watch the Crooks SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 March 1921 · page 5

To-day was the second day of the dog at the Royal Show. Last week [?] yelping and whining of the terrier was this morning replaced by the baying…

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Sydney Show. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1921 · page 4

There was another huge crowd at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show to-day, and despite the addition of fifteen acres to the area this year it was only with…

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Children's Day Sydney Show Record Attendances SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 March 1921 · page 6

This is children's day at the show. The big crush of the holidays is over. There was a shower early this morning, and dark cloudy masses sulked in…

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Sydney Show. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 March 1921 · page 7

The Sydney Show was continued to-day, when there was a large attendance, despite the light rain which fell in the morning. The show was open again in…

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Bitten by Bull-dog Show Records Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 March 1921 · page 5

To-day wan the last day of the Easter Show. The figures supplied show the attendance up to last night to be 459,400, an increase over last year of…

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The Kennel May Show

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 8

At the last meeting of the Newcastle and Northern District Kennet Club, it was decided to hold the annual May dog show, on Saturday, May 21. This…

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Man with Tumblers Show Booth Losses SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 5

"I saw defendant on the Randwick racecourse, with a large tumbler sticking out of his pocket. A search on him revealed four other tumbles…

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Fair Rents Court. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 9

Andrew Ellis, who was represented by Mr. Street, asked for a determination of the fair rent of premises at 7 Merewether-street, Merewether. Mr. T. A…

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Constable's Chase "Caught Fair Dinkum"

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 1

"I might as well own up, you caught me fair dinkum," Harold Stanley Hargreaves Hocking told Constable Toland after the latter had seen him come…

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A.j.c. Autumn Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 3

The A.J.C. autumn carnival was concluded at Randwick on Saturday in unfavourable weather. Rain fell on Friday and on Saturday morning, but on the…

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Fair Haired Charmers Ousted by Brunettes Vexed Question Settled LONDON, Monday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1921 · page 1

That fair hair is prejudicial to matrimonial chances is a startlingly sad discovery which is disturbing the minds of Parisian blondes. A…

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Fair Rent Law. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 April 1921 · page 7

In the Fair Rents Court to-day, Albert Jennings, of Parramatta-road, Annandale, proceeded against Joseph Walker, of Jaques-avenue, Bondi, alleging that on…

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Show Ground Question of a Lease

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 8 April 1921 · page 5

It is probable that Maitland will soon [?] a revival of trotting in the district a syndicate of local business and professional men is able to lease the…

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Dungog Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 6

Dungog show will be held from April 27 to 29. Special trains will run from Newcastle and Tarce on the second day. Entries close on April 16…

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Unsigned Letters Prof. Goode Protests Wants Fair Play

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 5

Professor Goode made a personal explanation at the outset of his lecture last night at the Victoria Theatre. He protcated, he said, at the…

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