The Passing Show
LAST: week 1 pointed out that many reformers have waxed facetious over the spelling of variously pronounced words like…
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Shows & fairs, 1946
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Local and General Tweed Agricultural Society
An advertisement in this issue draws attention to the election of a committee for Tweed River Agricultural Society. Nominations…
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MELBOURNE Zoo has a new baby which can take its own bath, but has to be fed with an eye-dropper and given DDT as…
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WHEN a Canadian Army Signals Corps unit, 340 strong, completed its service in the North, it travelled across the continent…
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PROBABLY one of the strangest jobs in Western Australia, or any other Australian state for that matter, is heid by a man who…
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ACCORDING to reports, Chiang Kai-shek (who doesn't drink) has touched his lips to the yellow wine in a Gan-pei cup, and…
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A large gathering at Ainsworth Lake last week witnessed a local amateur swimming carnival. Mr. and Mrs. E. Morgan, of Lismore,…
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I find it most embarrassing. I find it very harassing. You know, That the latest [?]menclature…
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Claimed to be the most unique entertainment of its kind, Caston's International Circus and Variety Show will present a programme…
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The Royal Agricultural Society of Queensland plans to hold its 82nd annual exhibition at the Toowoomba Showgrounds on April 2, 3…
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SAIL east of Suez and look at the mammoth ports of Asia's mainland—Bombay, Madras. Calcutta, Rangoon. Singapore, Hong…
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CASINO, Thursday. — Casino School of Arts Committee has arranged for the exhibition of an art collection on loan from Mr. Will…
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AMUSING, and serious, stories of the animal mascots of the Services were told at the BBC microphone a short time ago…
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Profit from the 1945 Tweed Show is expected to approximate £650. The acting-secretary (Mr A. C. Pratt) said this at the…
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At a special meeting of the Coolangatta Chamber of Commerce held at Coolangatta Town Council Chambers on Thursday…
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BARNABUS has been trying to form an estimate of the great amount of money that will be spent on construction work in…
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Entries for the Far North Coast swimming carnival, to be held in Murwillumbah, will close on Saturday next, January 26. Entries…
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Evans Head-Casino Surf Life Saving Club yesterday held the first surf carnival on Evans Head beach since 1941 before a…
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MULLUMBIMBY, Monday. — The Brunswick Heads S.L.S.C. will hold its annual carnival on Sunday next. With its membership…
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FOUR months ago a dispute held up the freighter Barwon at Victoria Dock, Melbourne. She is still lying idle there and likely…
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