Rodeo Show for Police Boys' Club
To help the funds or the Newcastle Police Boys' Club. Tex Morton's Australian Rodeo will give a matinee performance in the marquee near the…
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Shows & fairs, 1940
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Macquarie Golf Club Carnival
A carnival will be Macquarie Golf Club on Sunday, from which all proceeds will go to the British bomb victims fund. The programme contains six competitions. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Young People's Dance for Cathedral Fair
AT a very successful dance, arranged by Miss R. Philps. Mrs. Seivl, Teterin and S. Bruce, for Rosalind Castleden's candidature in the…
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The Deputy Mayoress (Mrs. E. Dunkley) opened the Jesmond Methodist Spring Fair in the Sunday School Hall yesterday. Bright blooms and palms…
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The Jesmond Methodist Sunday School Hall was decorated with flowers and greenery yesterday when the spring fair was officially opened by Mrs. E. Dunkley (Deputy Mayoress)…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mothers' Club Fair at Waratah
The Mothers' Club of the Waratah Infants' School will hold its annual fair in the Waratah School of Arts Hall on November 13. The following…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Of Interest to Women Musicale for Cathedral Fair
BOWLS of deep red roses and high vases of popples decorated the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hamilton, Church street, yesterday afternoon, for a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Swimming Carnival at Cessnock
An inter-colliery swimming championship will be a featured event on the programme of a carnival being arranged by Cessnock Swimming Club…
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Bromwich and Crawford are among the players who will take part in the tennis carnival which opens to-day on the Aber[?]are courts. Other players of note from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Evacuees Show How It Works
CURIOSITY NOW. Nan and Margaret Davidson, two evacuees from Scotland, show a gas mask to Mrs. R. G. Ellis, of Kerrstreet, May field West…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →King Leopold's Bust Restored at World Fair New York
The marble bust of King Leopold is being restored to the Belgian pavilion in the World's Fair to-night after its removal as a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wallsend Methodist Fair
Metcalfe-street, Wallsend, Methodist Spring Fair was opened by the Mayoress (Mrs. J. B. Wiggins) in the Sunday School Hall on Saturday afternoon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kotara Younger Set Carnival Dance
FLOWERS, streamers and balloons decorated the Kotara Hall on Saturday night when the Kotara Younger Set held a spring carnival dance…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Baby Show at Muswellbrook Muswellbrook
A large number of babies were entered at the baby show held in aid of the Old Age Pensioners' Association, and the patriotic fund. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Adamstown Fair
To-morrow the Adamstown Methodist Church will open its Rainbow Fair in the Kindergarten School Hall, Adamstown. The opening ceremony will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fair Held at Holmesville
Satisfactory results were achieved by the Holmesville Congregational Church Women's Committee at a sale of work which was officially opened by Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Greta Methodist Spring Fair
The Methodist Spring Fair which was held in the Greta Methodist Hall on Saturday afternoon, was an outstanding financial success. It was officially opened by Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Diggers of 1940" Rehearse New Programme Bright Show for Men in Western Desert
CAIRO, Oct. 21.—A Digger dressed in organdie, smoking a pipe. That was one of the sights I saw when I watched the "Diggers of 1940" rehearsing for a new programme. The Digger was Private Billy Williams, sometime radio salesman of Melbourne…
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Arrangements for the Miniature Fair were discussed at a meeting of the Baptist Women's Patriotic League. Mrs. D. Watson presided. The fair will be held…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Adamstown Fair Opened by Mayoress
A Rainbow Fair arranged by the Fair Committee of Adamstown Methodist Church was opened yesterday by the Mayoress (Mrs. Wiggins). The Mayor…
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