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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1938

1,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 50 of 55

Woman's Realm Vanity Fair Beauty Sleep Complete Relaxation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 November 1938 · page 3

Much more than cold cream and facial treatments, the beauty sleep must be kept in mind if looks and a clear complexion are to be retained. With children we see that they have sufficient health-giving…

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Straight Sets Quist Defeats Bromwich Sydney Exhibition Matches Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 November 1938 · page 10

Exhibition matches were played yesterday by the Davis Cup and Australian women's tennis players at Pratten Park, in the chief game Quist defeated Bromwich, 6.2, 11-6, Quist was…

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Cricket Anderson Withdraws Team for Country Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 November 1938 · page 10

J. Anderson, of Hamilton, has withdrawn from the Newcastle cricket team to play in the Country Week carnival in Sydney…

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Health Week Concurrent with Show Milk Board and Council Support

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 November 1938 · page 6

Health, Milk and safety Week will be concurrent with the Newcastle Show in February. This was decided at a committee meeting it the City Hall last night…

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Rainbow Fair Merewether Presbyterians

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 November 1938 · page 7

Over every stall there was a small paper rainbow streamers in all the colours of the rainbow were draped about the hall, and there were flowers in profusion at…

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Butterfly Fair Bright Colour Schemes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 November 1938 · page 6

Gally, coloured butterflies poised on peach blossoms formed a novel, decorative scheme, at the fair which was opened at the Brown-street Congregational, Church…

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Industry and Art Exhibition at Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 November 1938 · page 7

INDUSTRY AND ART of to-day and of the days before yesterday formed a strong alliance at the home industries and loan exhibition which the Maitland…

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Baby Show at Wallsend

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 November 1938 · page 6

A SUCCESSFUL baby show was held in at Luke's Parish Hall in aid of the Women's Guild yesterday morning. The judges were Nurses Gill and…

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Australia Invited N.Z. Women's Baseball Carnival SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 November 1938 · page 22

An invitation to Australia to send a representative team to New Zealand for the centenary celebrations in 1940 has been made by the Auckland Women's…

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Quist And Bromwich For Newcastle Exhibition Tennis On December 5

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 November 1938 · page 18

John Bromwich and Adrian Quist will probably meet in an exhibition match in Newcastle on Monday night, December 5…

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Value of Latin Is it Worth Place in Curriculum? Teacher Defends Leaving Paper "Perfectly Fair"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 November 1938 · page 20

Is Latin—one of the most important classical subjects in the secondary school and University curriculum—destined to gradual elimination, or will it continue to be…

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Toronto Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 November 1938 · page 12

With coloured streamers and flowers the Toronto School of Arts Hall presented an attractive appearance for the Church of England fair on Wednesday. It was…

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The Leaving Mathematics Paper Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 November 1938 · page 6

The third session of the Leaving Certificate examination was held yesterday. In the morning, Mathematics I, was the paper set for candidates, and in the…

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Baby Show at New Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 November 1938 · page 10

Mrs. C. F. Pettinger and Miss L. Bell were thee judges at a baby show held by the Now Lambton Lay Methodist Ladies' Church Aid…

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Cattle Drafting Recommended for 1939 Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 November 1938 · page 9

The reintroduction of cattle drafting in the ring programme for the 1939 Maitland Show will be recommended to the council of the Hunter River…

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Baird Selected Country Week Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 November 1938 · page 19

L. Baird, the Hamilton captain, has been selected to replace J. Anderson in the Newcastle Country Week cricket team. Anderson withdrew early in the week…

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The Glasgow Exhibition LONDON, October 28

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 November 1938 · page 5

About 12,000,000 people will have seen the Empire Exhibition at Glasgow when it closes on October 29. Originally it was hoped that 15,000,000 would attend, but…

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Vanity Fair a Perfect Sun Tan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 November 1938 · page 3

SUNNY DAYS are here again, and so is the shiny make-up. Suntanning may mean very little to some girls, but to others it is a positive nightmare. Their skins do not brown easily, and they become red and sore…

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Industrial Barometer Is Set Fair

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 November 1938 · page 8

With the exception of the Rothbury dispute and the idleness of miners at small pits at Wallsend, the district for the…

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Surf Carnival Championships Special Day Is Proposed

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 November 1938 · page 9

The executive committee of the Newcastle branch of the Surf Life Saving Association will recommend to the next meeting of the Association, on…

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