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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs
1,082 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 55
Keen competition was evident at the annual championship carnival controlled by the Boolaroo Swimming Club, held at the Speers Point baths on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"The biggest ever" was how the secretary of Newcastle Show Association (Mr. P. G. Legoe) to-day summed up the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the opening of the motor show, at which the chief feature was a popular small car developed in obedience to his orders. Herr Hitler warned industrialists…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle's Show once more invites the interest of the people of the district. It will begin to-morrow, and will continue for the remainder of the week. The fact…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Broadmeadow Showgroond was no place for the idler yesterday as preparations for the Show, which is to open to-morrow, proceeded apace. The Show…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Thirty years of development of the Newcastle Show is traced in the special Show supplement, which is published with to-day's issue…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →After several postponements, the elimination heats of the State surf championships will be held at Dixon Park beach on Saturday. Besides…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →POSED by the inquiry: "Why the Newcastle Show?" the average citizen might find it difficult to explain the underlying reasons for this outstanding annual event. Like Christmas, it comes round once a year and most of us are content to take…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →What part do Women play in the success of the Show? A very big one! They work behind the scenes as the right…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →The bustle of preparations for the 1937 Newcastle Show reached crescendo to-day. Tomorrow the gates of the Broadmeadow ground will be opened on a record exhibition. Only fine weather. Show Association officials declare, will be necessary to establish new attendance and revenue figures. Entries have never been higher, and the demand by business…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Always a popular feature of the show, the motor section is expected to attract a large number of visitors…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →"It is with the greatest pleasure that I take the opportunity of saying a few words in praise of the Newcastle Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Show, which opens to-morrow, and in commendation of the efforts of all…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Working along the route of the old Sydney line, near Teralba, a gang of men using a steam "navvy" is excavating 500 tons of gravel daily, for transportation, by train, to the site of the new marshalling yards, at Broadmeadow. The train makes its way through picturesque bush scenery, drawing eight trucks, each loaded with 30 tons of metal and gravel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →For many years the motor industry in Newcastle has looked upon the Newcastle Show as its official opportunity to exhibit the various products it handles or represents. Coming as it does at the time when the new models are being…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →An illustration of the growing feeling of friendliness between primary and secondary producers is given by the fact that last year growers from the North and North-west boosted Newcastle as a port for export purposes with a big exhibit at the Newcastle Show. Prominence was given to the facilities for the handling of wool, the silos for the storage of wheat,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Judges began their tasks at the Newcastle Show to-day, and the first awards were made in the needlework…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To help Show visitors to find their way about the ground and where different exhibits are placed, the Show Association has prepared a description of the lay-out of the ground. TO people visiting the Show for the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →This strange looking device at the Newcastle Show resembles a carelessly patterned spider's web with the human operators reshaping the web. In reality it is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →All smiles.— These girls made an attractive picture in one of the pavilion a the Show Ground this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Horse entries are a feature of the Maitland Show which opens next week. Five Jumping teams are expected to compete and the-total entry…
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