The Passing Show
When Murwillumbah "Diggers" said an revoir the other night to Mr. F. P. Cooper, who has been transferred to Lismore, there were many sincere…
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Shows & fairs, 1942
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The Passing Show
The term "cabbages and kings" was first coined to denote things tremendously apart: the sublime and the gorblimey. But all that has changed…
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GRAFTON, Thursday.—The Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society has decided to abandon the Grafton Show for…
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CASINO, Thursday. — Casino Show Society decided to-day to abandon its annual exhibition, which was to have been held on…
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All our eyes are directed to our northern gateway just now (and with good reason). The ominous south ward march of the Japanese should…
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CASINO, Friday.—At a meeting of Casino ambulance committee the president (Mr. A. E. Summers) reported that, despite the smaller…
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It is pleasing to know that, in the many calls on the public in these days. Tweed District Hospital patients are not forgotten. At a meeting of the…
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The series of "twilight" swimming contests commenced last Tuesday will be continued to-morrow night at the Municipal Baths. Last week's car…
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The "World Review," in its November issue, reproduces the answers of 14 Fleet' Street editors and diplomatic correspondents to the question, "What…
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DORRIGO, Sunday. — Resulting from an earlier decision, the committee of the Agricultural Association at a meeting unanimously…
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January is now drawing to a close and I think it is about time people realised that 1941 is over and that a new year has been ushered in,…
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A modern variant of an old joke-- The authority: "Yes, the Japanese have pushed south until they are located at one of our bases only 101…
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Tweed River Agricultural Society's financial year ends January 31, and prior to that date the officials desire that all monies due by the society be…
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Fishing has been good on the Tweed lately, I have been told, and although no hauls to equal those at Brunswick Heads recently when two bicycles…
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Nominations for the 16 vacancies on the committee of the North Coast National A. and I. Society as subscribers' representatives have…
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Many forms of bidding goodbye are observed. We invariably shake hands; the Turk will cross his hands on his breast and how; the Filipino rubs his…
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A contributor to Brisbane "Courier-Mail" sums up the position exactly as we see it in a comment on the complete disinterest and wilful blindness…
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The great majority of the people, including womenfolk, are pathetically eager to have a share in war work, and are anxious to learn all they can…
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Air raid precautions and such like are in the public mind on the Tweed these days and I culled the following from an English weekly as likely to be…
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Tweed district farmers were embracing with wholehearted enthusiasm the scheme for the evacuation of stock and food…
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