Australian Shop-girl Now Show-girl London, March 30
Desiree Cooper, who lived the first 14 years of her life in New Zealand and Australia, started in London four years ago as a shopgirl. She has now become…
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Shows & fairs, 1940
867 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 44
Canberra Opposes Rugby Union Country Carnival Willing to Play Newcastle Sydney
A stir was caused in Rugby Union circle to-day when the Secretary of the New South Wales Rugby Union (Mr. J. Noseda) received a telegram from the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Moree's Diamond Jubilee Show Moree
Moree Pastoral and Agricultural Society's diamond jubilee show opened today in ideal weather. Entries in all sections were satisfactory, and those in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Exhibition Tennis— First Night Games at District Park
Exhibition night tennis was played for the first time at District Park last night between leading Sydney and Newcastle players, and the proceeds…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Presbyterian Fair at Muswellbrook
Stallholders at the Muswellbrook Presbyterian Church Fair were:—Work: Mesdames C. Keir. W. Rodgers, J. Burrows, C. Castledine. R…
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Prize money was well distributed at the Cessnock cycling carnival yesterday in aid of C. Carpenter and N. Scott, who were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Vanity Fair After Summer Treatments
Here we are once again at the end of summer. Winter days are now with us, and our skin is beginning to feel just a trifle parched and rough. Hair has lost some of its natural glints, and that summer tan which looked attractive in bathing costume…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fair Realises £6000 for War Fund Canberra
A garden fair held in aid of war charity, at Government House yesterday, is believed to have been the most successful ever organised in Australia. More than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Lambton Scout Fair Opening by Mrs. Watkins
The New Lambton Scout Fair was held at the Scout Hall on Saturday afternoon. It was the culmination of a hard year's work by committee members…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Entries for May Day Carnival Close Next
Entries for the Newcastle Jockey Club's two-day May carnival on May 6 and 7 close next Monday at 4 p.m. with the Secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Baby Show at Mayfield
Mrs. S. Hill, of Georgetown, arranged a baby show at the Mayfield Hall in aid of old age and invalid pensioner of Mayfield. Matron Mason, Sister Endear,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lysaght's Welfare Club Baby Show
Ald. A. P. Travels opened a baby show held by Lysaght's Excelsior Welfare Club. Nurse Metcalf, of Wallsend, and Mesdames Robertson and J. Thornton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Benny Clare to Give Exhibition at Cessnock Carnival
The Cessnock cycling carnival to be held to-morrow on the new track will start at 2 p.m. Entries will be received up to 1 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Avoid Legal Costs Fair Rents Regulations to be Amended CANBERRA
Steps are being taken to amend the National Security fair rents regulations so that occupants of houses may apply for a reduction in rent without being…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fair Rents Court
Rent for "The Cottage," a house in Murray-avenue, Newcastle, was fixed at £1/19/ a wool. The case was one in which Pearl Thyra Flemming, of "The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cessnock Cycling Carnival Postponed
The Anzac Cycling Carnival, which was to have been held at Cessnock today, was postponed owing to rain. It will be held next Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Travel Talk for Church Fair
The Ladies' Guild of St. John's Presbyterian Church, Mayfield, on Thursday held an afternoon in aid of the sweet stall for the annual fair…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bennie Clare's Roller Cycling Exhibition
A nne exhibition of roller riding was Riven last night at the show-rooms of the Domestic Machinery Company by Bennie Clare, the English international,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Show Went On LONDON
Just before the curtain rase at the London Hippodrome to-night Debroy Somers, the band leader, received a telegram from the Admiralty saying that his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Vanity Fair Show Hands Are You Ashamed of Yours?
There are few beauty problems which cause women more despair than their hands. Housework is treacherous for hands. It makes them rough and red, causes fingernails to break and become grimy, and there is often the urge to sit on them and…
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