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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1931

1,087 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 55

Adamstown Soccer Club Lease of Show Ground Arranged Executive's Ruling

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 18 April 1931 · page 2

Adamstown Soccer Club has been successful in obtaining the use of the Showground for every alternate Saturday until the end…

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Taree Show Profit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 4

That a profit of £329/11/1 was made on the Taree Show held last month was disclosed in a financial statement presented to a meeting of the committee of the…

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Empire Exhibition Success at Buenos Aires LONDON, April 19

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 5

Approximately 1,000,000 persons have visited the British Empire Trade Exhibition in Buenos Aires. It will remain open another 11 days…

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TENNIS Hamilton Exhibition Play Crawford Supreme Miss Becket's Fine Showing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 9

One of the largest galleries seen attending a tennis exhibition was present at the Learmonth Park courts, Hamilton, on Saturday night. Long before the players took…

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Sudden Rise Laborer to Artist London Exhibition London, March 4

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 6

From land-worker to famous painter! such is the career of Mr. Fred stratton, whose paintings were on show at the residence of the Chancellor of the…

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Stroud Show Keen Ring Events Additional Awards. Stroud

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 2

After a series of "wet" shows, the committee of the Stroud A. H and J. Association decided to insure this year's exhibition for £50 against 10 points of rain…

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Coalfields Rugby League Teams Overwhelm Opponents in First Round Brilliant Crawford Exhibition Night Tennis Miss Beckett at Top Huge Crowd at Learmonth Park

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 8

Exhibition tennis of a very high order was witnessed by upwards of 800 spectators at Learmonth Park Courts on Saturday night, when the Australian Davis Cup Champion, Jack Crawford, the Junior Singles Champion, J. Moore, and Mrs…

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Juniors Show Their Mettle While Seniors Rest Fast Games Please Soccer Fans Merewether's Eleven in Fine Form Loco. Men Fail

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 8

The suspension of State League games in the Newcastle district on Saturday gave the juniors an…

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Women Bowlers Newcastle Team in Sydney First Carnival Final Round in Pennant Games SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 April 1931 · page 5

The first carnival of the New South Wales Women's Bowling Association, was begun this morning at the City and Leichhard Greens. THE play to-day consisted of final…

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Car Crashes Through Show Window Two Smashes in the Suburbs Drivers Unhurt

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 April 1931 · page 1

Drivers had narrow escapes from injury in two collisions between cars and lorries in the suburbs this…

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Show Results

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1931 · page 7

The balance-sheet of the show held by the Cessnock Agricultural Association showed a profit of £40. In figures the amount is small, but when it is…

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Profit on Armidale Show Armidale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 10

At a meeting of the Executive Council of the Armidale P. and A. Association the financial report of the recent annual show revealed a profit of £254. The President…

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Persian Art Exhibition Closes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1931 · page 5

The Persian Art Exhibition, at Burling ton House, which has just closed, was visited by 260,000 people. The figures for the Flemish Exhibitions were 153,000 and…

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Ladies' Carnival Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1931 · page 4

The New South Wales Ladies' Bowling Association's first annual carnival was to have been continued to-day, but continuous rain, which resulted in the greens…

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BOWLS Ladies' Carnival Resumes in Newcastle

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 25 April 1931 · page 7

After several ineffective attempts to complete the championships, the New South Wales Women's Bowling Association decided yesterday to…

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Birdwood Urges India As Market for Australia Exhibition of Produce in London London

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 25 April 1931 · page 5

"I am delighted to nave an opportunity of helping the Diggers, for whom I have an abiding and everlasting regard, and than whom I never…

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A London Letter Art Exhibition—War and the Seas—Air Mails to Europe—Faraday and Wireless—Anglo-German Club Project March 12, 1931. the Chancellor's Illness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1931 · page 5

THERE is universal sympathy with Mr. Snowden in the severe illness which has fallen on him at the most inopportune period of the…

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Exhibition Match

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 April 1931 · page 7

Permission has been asked for from the N.D.L.T.A. to stage an exhibition match on the Lorndale court on the night of May 6, when Reid and O'Ryan will play…

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Cardiff Show Fine Flower Display the Awards

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 April 1931 · page 6

Excellent entries were received for the first exhibition arranged by the newly formed Cardiff Agricultural Bureau at Cardiff Parish Hall on Saturday night. A…

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Free Show For Unemployed

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 April 1931 · page 5

Cessnock unemployed yesterday afternoon were guests of Union Theatres, Ltd., which provided a free programme of "talkies" for the workless…

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