New Barrier for Show Trots
More efficient starting of trotting events at the Newcastle Show is expected to result from a new type of barrier being constructed. The…
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Shows & fairs, 1946
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Fine School Pictures For Show
Every branch of school activity would be represented in school exhibits at the Show, said the Headmaster of Central Junior Technical…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Carnival Swims at Cessnock
Features of the swimming carnival at Cessnock baths on Sunday afternoon will be the bathing beauty contest, which is the first of its…
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Grocers and storekeepers in Newcastle and district will trade on the morning of Thursday. February 21, closing for the day at noon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Entry for Redhead Carnival
Entries for Redhead surf carnival on Sunday are the largest received for any carnival outside Newcastle for years. The total entry exceeds…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Ancient Relics at Newcastle Show
A Queen Anne flint-lock musket and bayonet (Battle of Blenheim, August 13, 1704), a flint-lock carbine (George I., 1714), Australian…
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The President of the (Grocer and Storekeepers' Association (Mr. J. A. Youngberry) said the association had decided to trade until noon on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appeal Soon Got Show Entries
Following a report by the Secretary of Maitland Show (Mr. Brown) to a meeting of the general committee on Thursday night, that the entry…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Topics for Women To Be Worn At The Show
ONE of the greatest stimulants to the 'tween season wardrobe is a new hat. It goes to the head like old wine, brightens the wearer and gives a weary frock a new lease of life. Summer hats have lost conceit and winter hats are still in their wrappings. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ground Shipshape for Show
Not the least of the worries of the Newcastle Show Secretary (Mr. Legoe) was the transfer from the association's office in Watt-street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newbiggin, Land Beaten at Redhead Carnival
G. Evans, of Merewether, swimming in his first season as a senior, easily defeated Australian Surf Champion Bob Newbiggin, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Surf Carnival at Redhead Was a Success
Despite heavy seas which caused the referee, Mr. Alan Paterson, to order abandonment of the bout races, Redhead's surf carnival…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Show Holiday Is Not for All
The holiday next Thursday for Newcastle Show did not apply to many classes of employees, the Secretary of the Chamber of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tax Anomalies at Show "Forcing Showmen Out of Business"
Tax anomalies will puzzle sideshow patrons at the Newcastle Show this year, according to showmen. Riders on the "octopus" will pay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"District" Holiday for Show
If an employee's eligibility for the Show holiday on Thursday were in doubt, the award should be consulted, said the Secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Special Newcastle Show Supplement
Coinciding with the opening day of Newcastle Show, "The Newcastle Sun" is publishing a special Show supplement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Judging Commenced At The Show
JUDGING COMMENCED at Newcastle Show today. — Miss P. Thompson, Mrs. F. Dawson, Miss G. Fenwick and Mrs. K. Green take some of the exhibits in the needlework section into the judges. The standard of the work was again very high…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Postal Arrangements for Show Day
The Newcastle Post Office would close at noon on Thursday for the Newcastle Show, the Postmaster (Mr. D. S. Gilmour) said today…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ready for Show Opening: First List of Awards
Under a hot sun which promised ideal weather for the first Exhibition since 1940, an army of workmen, sideshow men, officials and others were hard at work today at the Showground putting the finishing to uches to pavilions, stalls and…
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Cyril Owens, bitten by a horse at Newcastle Showground today, is led away by a St. John Ambulance attendant, Sgt. Nash…
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