Motor Show Is Biggest Since Pre-War Days
Motor trade exhibits at the Newcastle Show this year are the most numerous in the Show's history. Despite the absence of many American cars and trucks, the displays are…
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Shows & fairs, 1950
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High-quality Butter, Cheese and Wool at Newcastle Show
Judges in the dairy produce section at the Newcastle Show today described this year's entries in the butter section as well graded and of a high standard—slightly better than last year…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Show Stirs to Life After 12 Months' 'Sleep'
Just to be different today, I decided to go in through the Newcastle Show's back gate. The moment I alighted from the bus in Curley Rd. there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trotting As Sport, The Offspring Of The Show Ring
The horse-and-buggy days are no more, but the trotting horse is still with us and, with the growing popularity of night trotting, his future seems assured. Trotting as a sport was cradled…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Coal Board Comes To The Show How Mechanisation In Mines Lifts Output
Machinery which is commencing to revolutionise underground coalmining and which will afterwards be used in Newstan Colliery, is on display at the Show, together with a model of a mechanised underground district. The exhibit is being displayed by the Joint Coal Board…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fair Employment Bill in U.s.a
WASHINGTON, Wed. (A.A.P.): The Government today introduced President Truman's Fair Employment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Children At The Show
Above: Ross Stockings (3½) of Gilgandra, whose father is a wheat and sheep farmer, found great interest in the tractors at the Show. Below: David O'Donnell (3½) had…
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Top left: Mr. Eric Harvey of Cardiff gave his 18-month-old son Ian a grandstand view of the ring events at the Show, but Ian found something else to attract his attention. Top, right: Gilbert Noble was the envy of many boys and girls as he walked through the Showground with his big balloons. Below, left: St. John Ambulance girls, Barbara…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Show Holiday To-day
BANKS, Government, insurance and most other offices will be closed for the Newcastle Show holiday to-day. Retail…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Child Bitten By Show Monkey
John Allan, 2, of Shortland, was taken to hospital for treatment after he had been bitten by a monkey at Newcastle Show…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Merewether Wins Show March Past
Merewether Surf Club's march past team, which won a marching event at Newcastle Show last night…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →First Day Scenes From Show
Newcastle Show began yesterday; and these people were part of the big day. Top left: Barbara Evans, of Stockton,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Show Exhibits Demonstrate Trends In Decentralisation
Reflected in the increased variety of industrial and commercial exhibits at the Newcastle Show this year is the fact, now well established, that industry is rapidly spreading out from city to country as employers widen their postwar chase for labor…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Record First-Day Crowd At Show
A record first-day crowd of 12,301 people attended Newcastle Show yesterday and last night. Gate takings were £778/5/9. It was the first time the show…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gun Dog Trials At The Show
Gun dog trials at the Newcastle Show would be held on Saturday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., not on Friday, the chief…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Show Ribbons Nothing New To Perfection
PERFECTION, champion hack at Newcastle Show, has won many show ribbons in the last two years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For Women... The "Elevenses" Shine At Show
A little Cardiff girl, "Minnie" (Shirley) Moore, has no need to have her horoscope cast to determine her lucky number. Judged the champion girl rider…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Family Day Attracted Large Crowds to Show Today
Perfect weather and a full school holiday, brought big crowds early to Newcastle Show today for Family Day. Queues of children, many of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£75 From Tennis Exhibition
Maitland and District Lawn Tennis Association expects to clear £75 from the tennis exhibition given on its newly lighted Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Show Topics
Twenty-five years ago Newcastle Show Society announced a special one-day concession for children—Admission 3d, sideshow…
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