Sports Carnival at Mayfield East
The Mayfield East Amateur Sporting Club will hold its annual carnival at Dangar Park on Saturday, August 30. Football matches against Sydney…
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Shows & fairs, 1947
817 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 41
Baby Show For Miss Australia Quest This baby Show Was A Peaceful Affair
On my first visit to a baby show, I approached St. James's Church Hall, Wickham, with vague forebodings. I HAD notions of uncomfortably clean tots screaming in their…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Roman Fair And Uranium Pleased In Today's Trails For Races At Newcastle
Roman Fair (three, in 38 1/4) and Uranium (38 1/2) displayed brilliant form in trials at Broadmeadow this morning. Both are expected to shape well in Newcastle races on Saturday. Rosehill candidates, Gold Ross and Gold Mar, were other smart sprinters. Gold…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →A Little Shy For Their First Baby Show
IN A SOLEMN MOOD as they arrived for yesterday's baby show at St. James's Church Hall, Wick ham, were Jim Frost (3), with baby brother, Gregory (14 months), and sister Beverly, aged two. It was their first baby show…
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HOBART, Thursday.—At the Australian women's basketball carnival a Hobart to-day New South Wales defeated Queensland by 45 to 18,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Industrial Fair Railway Exhibit
Working models of new and old locomotives, of signalling systems and of some of the Railway Department's most modern trains will be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Art Exhibition Will Open Tomorrow
Paintings by Newcastle artists will be for sale at from one to 100 guineas when the Art Exhibition opens at the Technical College, Hunter Street…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →15-Ton Mixer Comes to Fair
Haulage experts yesterday had a difficult morning's work transporting this 15-ton machine from Goninan's to the Showground. It is a Goninan-Bridge-Hanbury automatic mixer of rubber and will be displayed at the Anniversary Industrial Fair,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tivoli Show To Go On
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—As the result of an agreement between the three unions concerned in the theatrical dispute the new Tivoli…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Celebrations Art Show To Open To-morrow
The Newcastle 150th Anniversary Combined Artists' Exhibition will be opened to-morrow at the Hunter-street Technical College at 3 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fair at Teralba
Mr. D. Snedden will open the annual fair of Teralba Presbyterian Women's Guild in the School of Arts to-day…
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ART SHOW.—Newcastle Art Society's 150th Celebrations show was officially opened this afternoon at the Old Technical College Building, Hunter Street West. Seen in this picture are Messrs. T. Ninness, F. Wallin, C. Matters, L. A. Hill and J. G. Ross, examining a wall plaque…
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The fourth bi-annual championship show of the Northern British Bulldog Club will be held at the Showground, Broadmeadow…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mayfield East Sports Carnival
Mayfield East Amateur Sports Club will hold its annual carnival at Dangar Park on Saturday, August 30. Football matches have been arranged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Crooks Flock To Melb. For Spring Carnival
MELBOURNE: Pickpockets, confidence men, "magsmen" and spielers are arriving in Melbourne in greater numbers than ever before for the spring racing carnival and the Royal Show…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Art Show Reflects Local Scene
The Newcastle Combined Artists 150th Anniversary Exhibition, which will open at Hunter-street Technical College at 3 p.m. to-day, shows in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wife "Stole" Show Is Actor's Claim
NEW YORK, Friday: Ethel Smith, U.S. swing organist and film player, will divorce her stage star husband Ralph Bellamy because after a party…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Pictures Go Up for Art Show
Mrs. M. Jarmson hangs Mr. R. Russom's painting for Newcastle Combined Artists' 150th Anniversary Exhibition, which opens this afternoon. Most of the works are by Newcastle artists. Committee members helping Mrs. Jarmson are Miss R. Sameuls (left)and Mesdames V. Niness and E. N. Shearman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Legacy Carnival
Newcastle Legacy is expected to benefit considerably from a major carnival which is to be held in the Amusement Park, King Street, from…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wickham Baby Show
Glenis Mechan was judged grand champion at a baby show held at Wickham for the Miss Australia quest…
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