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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs
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Of 102 teams entered for the annual Country Tennis carnival, which commenced at the lawn tennis ground, Rushcutter's Bay to-day, 96 competed. For the first time teams were put into A and B grades,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The average man is not as hard to please as Mr. Aldous Huxley, who tells us in one of his essays that he was so disgusted with the first "talkie" he saw that he decided never to go to one again. And other writer has been telling us lately…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"The breaking of the drought." by player in the Country Week tennies yesterday. "Hot and dry conditions" at Rushcutters Boy led competitors frequently to the refreshment bar…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR G. WHISKARD, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom. He will open the Newcastle Show on February 23…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More than 50 swimmers will lake part in the carnival ar ranged by the Women's Swimming Association at the Newcastle Baths to-morrow night. Ten events will be held and it will…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Described in an official statement released to-day by the Commerce Department as the most ambitious effort to depict Australia in an oversea exhibition…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SINCE the arrangement of Newcastle Jockey Club's fixtures for 1939, it was noticed that one of the dates, Thursday, February 23,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Additional classes and increased prize-money in practically every section are announced in the schedule for the 1939 Newcastle Show, on February 22, 23, 24 and 25…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Newcastle Jockey Club's race meeting which was to have been held on February 23 has been brought forward to February 16. The former…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stone axe heads made 49 centuries ago are part of the first complete shipment of art objects from any Pacific nation to arrive at the 1939…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tennis players from the Far West had the advantage when the country carnival was continued at Rushcutter's Bay to-day, for the heat was more intense than the previous two days. Interest again centred in the A grade women's teams…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Statements that the Mayor (Ald. G. W. Jenner) had given permission for the erection of a canvas Station, despite a resolution on the Civic Station, despite a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A smashing International show, presenting the music, art drama and commercial life of Orient and Occident, will entertain visitors to the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The annual carnival of the Coolers Hill Surf Club will be held at Bar Beach on Saturday January 28…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The prize schedule for the Royal Agricultural Society's 1939 Show have been issued. Prize money totals £15,500, £500 more than last year…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Play in the Country Week Tennis Carnival at the Rushcutters Bay courts to-day advanced the knockout rounds a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bread will be brought by air mail from Queensland for exhibition in the Newcastle Show, which begins on February 22 if negotiations now being made are successful…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Newcastle No. 1 team, in both men's and women's sections of the Country Week Tennis Carnival championship, being played at Rushcutter Bay courts, Sydney, survived the preliminary rounds. Both qualified for the knock-out rounds…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →ONE of the greatest thrills of a lifetime must surely be when someone who has been but a name suddenly becomes a reality—a living person. It…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Too curious visitors anxious to know details of the latest foreign military aircraft, will be disappointed at the Paris aero exhibition…
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