Schools Get Ready For The Show
Top left: Papier-mache masks are tried on and admired before being added to the collection of school exhibits at the…
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Shows & fairs, 1950
718 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 36
Cessnock Swimming Carnival
On Sunday at Cessnock Baths the Cessnock Swimming Club will hold its postponed carnival. Several northern…
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Miss Anne McGowan, of Tamworth, assists Mr. W. H. Lye, of Tamworth, who has been arranging the agricultural exhibits at the Newcastle Show for fifteen years, to make the woollen frieze for the Agricultural Pavilion. Natural lambswool is used for the background and various colored wools are pulled through wire netting in the same method…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →3 Swim Records Go At Junior High Carnival
Three records were broken at Newcastle Junior High School swimming carnival yesterday. Neville Coulton, in a heat, broke…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jockey Club Show Loss On Night Greyhound Meetings
The three dog meetings held since the club had been ordered by the Greyhound Control Board to conduct night meetings had shown a loss, the chairman (Mr. J. W. McLauchlin) revealed at the annual…
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THERE would be no official opening to the Newcastle Show this year, the President of the Newcastle Show Association…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →50,000 Attended Exhibition On Road Safety
Newcastle people had learned a great deal from the Road Safety Council's exhibition in the City Hall, the Secretary of the council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fair Diana Beats Fillies On Heavy Canterbury Track
SYDNEY: Fair Diana (N. Sellwood) won the Nursery Handicap for fillies at Canterbury this afternoon by half a length from Dolphin (W. Hughes), hot favorite Fine Girl (E. Doon) being three lengths back…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rain Washes Out Sport: Surf Carnival, Dogs Off
Heavy rain washed out all sport in Newcastle today and caused the postponement of the N.J.C. greyhound meeting tonight. More than half an inch of rain fell in the city between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eagleton Wins Shield At Junior Show
Eagleton District, 446 points in a possible 635, won an interdistrict competition for the Thomson Shield at Raymond Terrace Junior…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trotting Men Will Support Maitland Show
Hunter Valley Trotting Owners and Trainers' Association last night decided to give support to Maitland Show which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Valuations at Maitland Show Big Rise
Although the ratable unimproved capital value of Maitland Municipality decreased by about £5000 to £1,397,490 at the beginning of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bus and Tram Services For Newcastle Show
The District Superintendent of Road Transport and Tramways (Mr. Owens) yesterday gave details of bus and tram timetables for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"SHONNA" (Meaning West Wind) African Pigmy Man at the Show
Shonna was shipped at Zanzibar, East Africa, and is a Uteri Forest Pigmy. He is a worshipper of Kam (the Sun), and when at its full the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flower Show at Adamstown
Despite the bad weather there was a splendid exhibition of flowers and a good attendance of spectators at a dahlia…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ready For The Show
It was washday at Newcastle Showground today for Muriel Hayes, who has spent all her life in show business and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strange Little People At Show
"Qua Qual," half Hottentot and half Pawnee Indian, will be appearing with the little pigmies and tiny African bushmen at the Show. This…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Junior Farmer Show Takings Down
One hundred and eight points of rain were recorded at Raymond Terrace on Saturday, when the second and main day of Raymond…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Show Will Be "Biggest Ever": Lack of Space Raises Problem
Rapidly dwindling space at Newcastle Showground is giving Show officials one of their biggest problems for years as sideshows and exhibits arrive in an ever-increasing stream to prepare for the first day…
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BANKS, insurance and Government offices will be closed for the show holiday on Thursday…
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