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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs
718 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 36
SYDNEY: Among fours undefeated after the fourth round of Country Week bowls played today were "Sep" Flowers's four from Newcastle City (present Country Week titleholders), Dick Lathlean's New…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The "Kiwis" Revue is a show that has to be seen to be believed. That may sound rather trite, but it is the comment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More than 1000 people, including showmen, worked from early morning till late yesterday preparing for the opening of Newcastle's 1950…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Activity at Newcastle Showground this morning was working up to a feverish pitch to prepare exhibits and sideshows for the first day of the Show tomorrow. Show officials today declared…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shonna was shipped at Zanzibar, East Africa, and is a Uteri Forest Pigmy. He is a worshipper of Kam (the Sun),…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Don't miss the most stupendous, the most sensational sight of all time! LADIES and GENT-lemen. The Show is here again and with it are those temples of entertainment, the side-shows…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle people should find support of the city's annual show, which opens to-day, a pleasure as well as a duty. Evidence presented…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT WAS HORSE DAY AT NEWCASTLE SHOW TODAY.—Top left: Mr. H. Forbes's pony stallion Trigger shows off be [?] the judges. Centre, top: Miss A. Watson and Goldie wait quietly for the judge. Mr. M. Maher's Silver Coin was difficult to manage in the Show ring. Centre, left: Mr. Arthur Cowling, pony judge (Goulburn), examining Dixie, entered by Mrs. Una Farley. Centre: Mr. R. McAuliffe's draught horses in charge of E. Harris and W. Tiffin parade for the judges. Below, left: Tom Green driving Swannie in the Show ring. Centre, below: Miss Sylvia Lane on Timmie. Below, right: Twelve-year-old David Stokes on Midge, competing in the under 11 hands pony event…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tomorrow has been declared a public holiday for the City of Newcastle and the Shires of Lake Macquarie and Port Stephens gazetted under the Bank and Banks' Holiday Acts. Except where the award…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The parking area for all cars, including those belonging to members, for this year's Show is in Richardson Park…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Show Post-office, housed beneath the members' stand, will be open during the show. It will provide postal,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A special Newcastle District forecast for the Show issued by the Weather Bureau in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Graduation from backyard circuses—in which the principals were a sullen-tempered Irish terrier and his hoyden consort—to active association with our city's annual carnival was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE ROSS Safety Belt will be on display at the Show to-night. The Ross Belt—a New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The casual observer of the women's industries section of the Show does not always realise the amount of forethought and planning which has been necessary to make it so successful. Looking at the astonishing variety and quality of the exhibits in this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cook's Hill boys help to prepare the schools' exhibit at Newcastle Show. Left to right G. Embleton, K. Holmes, L. Walker and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australia's outstanding woman sprinter, Marjorie Jackson, will appear at a professional running and cycling carnival at Newcastle Sports…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Two wars, a cyclone, a depression and an influenza epidemic are some of the setbacks the Newcastle Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Association has had to overcome in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At every postwar Newcastle Show, interested observers have noted, not without a good deal of satisfaction, the increasing number of women who make straight for the women's industries pavilion. These women do not merely…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle Show has grown steadily from a small event to a large-scale operation drawing huge crowds, since Mr. A. Smith,…
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