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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1946

710 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 36

Show Casualty

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 1

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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Show Holiday

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 14

Business arrangements for tomorrow — the official opening day of the Show — are as follows — Shops: Close at 11 a.m. Banks…

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"The People's Show"

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 3

"We expect record attendances at the Show this year," said the President of the Newcastle Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Association (Alderman F. J. Cane) today, "and visitors will find many improvements. All the pavilions have been refurbished as well as painted, the trotting track has been regraded and the roads have been…

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Show Service . Rest Room for Mothers at Newcastle Show

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 14

A rest room furnished by the Country Women's Association will be available for mothers with small children at the Newcastle Show. AMBULANCE and postal facili…

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Judging Preserves at Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 5

Mrs. E. B. Linderman (centre) judging preserves at Newcastle Show yesterday, assisted by stewards Mrs. R. D. Duncan (left) and Mrs. A. Duncan (right)…

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On With The Show

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 1

AFTER six years of war the Shoe is here again. One and all in Newcastle it, prepared to drink deep of the lessons it affords, to wonder at the ever-widening horizon it presents, to feel true pride that all it represents is the epitome of what the district has achieved. For everyone it has been an anxious time, a time of many difficulties, but the Show will probe that…

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Show Days Are Here Again Highlights In Show Ring And Pavilion

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 8

GRACE AND RHYTHM. — Miss L. Rodgers made an attractive figure at the Show today as she went over the bar on Tony, owned by Mr. L. Harrison. Below at left: An Expert at Work. — Mrs. E. B. Lindeman, judge in the…

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Variety in Schools' Show Exhibits

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 2

Despite the shortage of most materials, the ingenuity and industry of schoolchildren have produced an exhibition of infinite variety at…

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Schools' Parade At The Show

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 10

Whole-hearted cooperation among the schools, the pupils, the teachers and the parents has made possible the fine exhibit by Newcastle schools at the Show. A healthy urge to do a job worthy of itself…

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The Work Behind a Show

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 6

The curtain rises and the thousands who visit the Show see only a well-organised exhibition. They do not realise the work done by the men behind the scenes — the members of the Show Committee, who get little…

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Show Calls To City & District

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 2

THE Committee of Newcastle Agricultural. Horticultural and Industrial Association has labored each year to make the Show an…

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Special Bus For The Show

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 3

A special bus service will operate between Tighe's Hill and the Newcastle Showground on Thursday. Friday and Saturday…

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The Show Pictures Our Progress

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 8

THERE is a widely held and oftenexpressed and completely mistaken notion that shows never change. It is, of course,…

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Pioneers Recall The First Show Days When Women's Show Committee Was Marooned

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 12

Memories of Shows over the past 44 years have been revived for at least three Newcastle women with the holding of the 1946 Newcastle Show. Doyen of them all is Mrs. J. L…

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What the Show Means to Newcastle

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 3

CITY AND COUNTRY, equal partners in Newcastle Unlimited, will this week greet each other at Newcastle Show. The hand that manufactures and the hand that grips the plough…

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Film At Show On Health Advice

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 6

Feature of the Public Health Department's display at the Newcastle Show will be a series of motion picture films, explaining…

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Show Means Happy Days For Children

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 7

Though a Show is the district's shop window and a mirror which reflects the progress of business and community life, important to the civic, cultural and commercial leaders as a barometer of progress, such high ideals mean…

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Women's Auxiliary Has Big Show Job

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 2

The Women's Auxiliary of the Show Committee has undertaken a heavy task during the four days of Newcastle Show…

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Womens Part in the Newcastle Show

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 4

Little does the casual observer of the women's industries section of the Show realise the amount of forethought and planning necessary to make it the success it always is…

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Next Royal Show In Easter, 1947

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 11

The Royal Agricultural Society of N.S.W. plans to hold its first postwar Royal Show at Easter, 1947, following…

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