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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1938

1,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 53 of 55

Junction School's Show of Work

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 December 1938 · page 13

Many fine specimens of drawing, writing, map work, printing and sewing were shown at the Junction School this afternoon when the Girls' School…

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Conference of Northern Show Officials

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 December 1938 · page 4

Important matters of policy affecting northern show associations will be discussed at a conference to be held at Armidale on December 10…

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Shield Team Anxious to Show Improvement Will Be "Flat Out" Against Newcastle To-morrow

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 December 1938 · page 21

Eager to show an improvement on their Queensland form, the State Sheffield Shield Cricket XI. arrived in Newcastle by the Brisbane mail early this morning…

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Convent Fair Gay Illuminations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 December 1938 · page 7

Set on its hill, the Adamstown Convent was an ideal hot weather setting for the bazaar which was opened on Thursday night by Mr. J. G. Arthur,…

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Davis Cup Players Show Out in Exhibition Games Big Crowd at District Park

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 December 1938 · page 4

The biggest crowd to attend matches of the kind in Newcastle watched the four members of Australia's Davis Cup team in three exhibition matches at District Park tennis ground yesterday. The venture was the most successful the Newcastle…

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Woman's Realm Vanity Fair Falling Hair Danger of Neglecting Dandruff

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 December 1938 · page 3

Dandruff, or to use the correct term, Seborrhea, can be divided into two great classes, oily an dry. It is the greatest cause of falling hair. This complaint usually starts at an early age—generally…

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High School Model 'Plane Exhibition

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 December 1938 · page 8

C. Bastian, of the Newcastle High School Model Flying Club, with some of the solid scale models in the club'a exhibition. Left to tight ate a war-time seaplane, a Douglas transport, a Short-Mayo composite unit and a Rearwin sporster. A Brown with a scale model Blackburn dive bomber at the Newcastle High…

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Record Entry for Country Swimming Carnival Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 December 1938 · page 9

With 152 entries representative of every Country Association, the first Country Swimming Carnival, arranged by the N.S.W. Amateur Swimming…

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Fascist Leader and Art Show Rome

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 December 1938 · page 9

General Achille Starace, former secretary of the Fascist Party, is organising an anti-bourgeois exhibition and is offering prizes ranging from…

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Model 'Plane Display at High School 200 Exhibits In Show

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 December 1938 · page 8

About 200 model aeroplanes, ranging from some as big as a fingernail to other gas-powered machines with wing-spans of several feet, are…

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Waratah School Exhibition Is Postponed

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 December 1938 · page 2

The exhibition of work by the boys and girls of the Waratah primary school, which was to have been held this afternoon, has been postponed…

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200 ENTRIES Model 'Planes at Newcastle High School Fourth Annual Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 December 1938 · page 4

About 200 model aeroplanes, raging from' a gas-driven model with a wing-span of 9ft. to one smaller than a postage stamp were on show at Newcastle High…

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Affluent Now Coursing Helps Gosford Show Association GOSFORD

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 December 1938 · page 10

The Gosford District Agricultural and Citrus Association is affluent as a result of the introduction of greyhound coursing. This was disclosed at a meeting last…

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Domestic Science Exhibition

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 December 1938 · page 7

The annual exhibition of the Newcastle Central Domestic Science School was hold at the school this afternoon. Samples of work done by the girls…

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Country Swimmers' Carnival Tomorrow Night Strong Competition From Newcastle SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 December 1938 · page 11

Country swimmers will have an exclusive time at Granville Municipal Baths to-morrow night. It will be the first carnival which they have…

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Christmas Fair Wallsend Anglican Effort

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 December 1938 · page 4

Members of the committee of the Wentworth-street Anglican Mission Hall, Wallsend—a few women workers—were despondent on Saturday at the prospect…

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Newcastle Swimmers Outstanding Times Were Slow At Country Carnival

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 12 December 1938 · page 9

Newcastle was well represented at the Country Swimming Championship Carnival at Granville baths on Saturday night…

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Building in State Figures Show Big Activity

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 12 December 1938 · page 2

During the nine months ended September 30, new buildings erected in the State, together with alterations and…

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Woman's Realm Vanity Fair Superfluous Hairs What To Do About Them and What Not To Do

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 December 1938 · page 3

THERE is nothing more disfiguring and embarrassing to a woman than a hairy growth on the top lip and chin. Beauty specialists are being asked daily what can be done to prevent and rid the face of this unwanted mar to facial…

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Hunter Show Society

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 December 1938 · page 11

At the monthly meeting of the council of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association last night, presided over by Mr. W. E. Sparke, it was…

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