850,000 Saw Adelaide Exhibition
ADELAIDE, Sunday.—After a 10-week run, the Royal Adelaide Exhibition closed yesterday. Organised by the South Australian Chamber of…
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Shows & fairs, 1947
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Red Cross Fair At New Lambton
New Lambton Red Cross Appeal for the British Flood Relief Fund will benefit by £24 14s 4d from a miniature fair in the parish hall on…
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The Mayoress (Mr. H. D. Quinlan) opened the New Lambton Red Cross branch fair during the week-end. Donations totalling £10/3/ were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sixty Newcastle Girls For Basketball Carnival In Sydney
Sixty girl basketballers will go from Newcastle to Sydney on Saturday, May 31, to take part in the country carnival which will be played on Moore…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Show Committee To Consider Industrial Fair
The Newcastle Show Committee will be railed together as soon as the treasurer (Mr. Thompson) and the secretary (Mr. Legoe)…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Baby Show for Red Cross Flood Relief
Yvonne Dunstan was judged the champion girl and Garry Hardiman the champion boy at a baby show organised by Broadmeadow Red Cross in the Mechanics Insitute yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Day Break For Boys At School Soccer Carnival
The Public Schools Amateur Athletic Association representative to the Newcastle Soccer Association and a State School Soccer selector, Mr. W…
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Some of the 80 boy footballers from Sydney and Illawarra who arrived in Newcastle last night. They will form six of the teams to play in the schoolboy carnival arranged by the Soccer Association…
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Mr. A. E. Kershier (Bexley), assisted by Mr. H. J. Thompson (Merrylands), would judge the Horticultural Society's flower show at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Joe Thinks His Mo Won't Stand A Show
SYDNEY: Australia's strangest moustache arrived in Sydney on the Kanimbla today. It belongs to "Joe the Mo," who also answers the name of Don Grant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Scouts' Empire Fair
Funds of the First New Lambton group of Boy Scouts will benefit by more than £40 as the result of an Empire Day Fair organised by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Inter-City School Soccer Carnival
The final series of the Intercity Soccer games between schoolboy teams representing Sydney, Newcastle and Illawarra districts, were played at…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Show Orchids Worth £2000 at Celebrations
Orchids worth £2000 will be shown in Newcastle at the Flower Show in connection with the 150th Anniversary Celebrations…
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The 150th Anniversary Committee realised that the industrial fair must be held in conjunction with the celebrations…
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Nine aboriginal girl students from the Native Workers' Training College at Singelton will visit Newcastle on Saturday. They will give a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plant Bulbs Now For Good Lily Show
No time should be lost in planting lilium bulbs. Already the November lily, Lilium Harrisi, is growing and it will not be long before the others start, too. These stately beauties hold a high place among the flowering…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Roman Fair Was Pleasing at Broadmeadow
Roman Fair, a winner at two recent starts at Gosford and Wyong, was the most interesting galloper at Broad meadow this morning with half a mile on the Cinders track in 524 seconds…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hunter District Cage Bird Show
The annual exhibition of canaries, finches, budgerigars and parrots conducted by the Hunter District Canary and Cage Bird Society is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seven Ex-Service Groups Unite "To Get Fair Deal"
As a unity move, originated by the Australian Armoured Corps' Association, seven Newcastle ex-service groups decided last night to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Record Crowd And Entries At Annual Sheep Show
SYDNEY.—More than £200,000 worth of sheep—the cream of N.S.W. studs—are being judged today at the annual sheep show…
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