Royal Show Rain And No Beer
SYDNEY: Light rain which fell at the Show Ground today checked a big attendance…
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Shows & fairs, 1948
540 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 27
Day Record At Show May Stand
SYDNEY, Sunday.— Although fine weather is forecast for Sydney to-morrow. Royal Agricultural Society officials do not expect last…
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At a meeting of Raymond Terrace Junior Farmers' Club, the Treasure reported that the recent Junior Farmers' Show had realised…
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SYDNEY.—More than 60,000 visitors had entered the Show by this afternoon and more were still coming…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—For the second time in succession, War Eagle, owned by Mr. J. Bendrodt, won the blood champion title at…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The number of people who visited the Royal Show to-day was 106,100—an all-time record for a Thursday preceding Good Friday. The attendance last year was 93,005…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A procession organised by the Church of England as a protest against the holding of the Royal Show on Good…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. â Lewin McCurrie, 21, of Tarana, via Bathurst, had his left leg fractured at Sydney Showground to-night…
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Yesterday's weather pleased Newcastle district bowlers who held their Easter carnival. At National Park (left to right), Messrs. W. Pryde, of Kurri Kurri: L. McNair, of Islington: A. McKay, of Fraser Park, Sydney; and F. Allen, of Kurri Kurri, watch a shot…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—To-day's attendance at the Royal Show was 40,000 less than the Good Friday record of last year. The figures were—Good…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—More than 4000 marched from the Domain to St. Andrew's Cathedral this afternoon as a protest against the Royal…
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The Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) said yesterday that the Nesca exhibition at the Royal Show in Sydney had delighted him by its…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Attendance at yesterday's Royal Show was 204,153, compared with the record last Easter Saturday of 259,829…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Six men were lost for more than 15 minutes in darkness in the surf when their boats overturned…
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The Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan), aldermen and officers, photographed on a visit to the Newcastle Electric Supply…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Newcastle surfers won two Australian and two Country titles, and gained three seconds and a third, at the…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Five hundred gallons of beer intended for sale at the Royal Show may go to waste…
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Stroud Show will be held next Friday and Saturday. It will be officially opened by the Lord Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Ald…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Three times yesterday police had to suspend trading at the Royal Show to reduce stampedes among the record crowd…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A crowd of 124,520 to-day—Children's Day—brought the Royal Show's aggregate attendance to more than a…
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