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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1926

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Show Committee

The Western Herald · Saturday 1 May 1926 · page 2

The Trustees of the Bourke Showground have now been gazetted, and it remains for the committee to take charge of the management and place…

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Dubbo Show

The Wellington Times · Monday 3 May 1926 · page 2

The Dubbo show opens to-morrow and everything points to a big success, as a large number of entries have been received for all sections…

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The Late Show

The Wellington Times · Monday 3 May 1926 · page 2

Now that the Wellington P. A. and H. Society's show is a thing of the past, those persons who have not yet paid up their subscriptions,…

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Wellington Jockey Club Annual Show Meeting

The Wellington Times · Monday 3 May 1926 · page 3

The annual show meeting of the Wellington Jockey Club took place on the local course on Thursday afternoon last in fine, but threatening…

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Fair Rent Case

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 4 May 1926 · page 2

Interesting points were raised in a fair rent application made by James C. Lawson against A. J. Elliott. The application was in respect of rooms in…

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Soldiers' League Active Preparing for Carnival and Ball

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 4 May 1926 · page 1

The Dubbo branch of the Returned Soldiers' League is maintaining its activity. At a meeting on Thursday night, presided over by Dr. Fitz-Hill…

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Show To- Day. Great Array of Exhibits and Attractions

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 4 May 1926 · page 2

The town was alive with visitors this morning, here for the show to- day and to- morrow. At mid- day there was already a big…

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Narromine Show

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1926 · page 2

The Narromins Agricultural society's show [?] place next wednesday and Thursday. May 12 and 13. [?] entries [?] on May Land are most [?]…

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Narromine Show. Wednesday and Thursday. May 12th AND 13th

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1926 · page 4

Your Show opens wednesday, 12th May and every resident of the [?] should attend. There are those who argue that the…

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Forthcoming Fair

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 6 May 1926 · page 4

A rose and chrysanthemum fair will be held in the Chelmsford Hall on Saturday, 15th May. The opening will take place at 3 p.m.,…

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Narromine Show

The Wellington Times · Thursday 6 May 1926 · page 6

The annual show at Narromine will be held on 12th and 13th May (the week following Dubbo Show). The entries are large, and there will…

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Dubbo Show

The Wellington Times · Thursday 6 May 1926 · page 7

The Dubbo Show, which opened in beautiful weather, ranks as one of the best so far held. The entries totalled 3200 constituting a record…

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Warren Show

The Wellington Times · Thursday 6 May 1926 · page 6

The Warren annual show will be held on Thursday and Friday, May 27 and 28, for which a very attractive schedule has been drawn up…

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Coonamble Show

The Wellington Times · Thursday 6 May 1926 · page 6
Also in Gilgandra Weekly

The Coonamble Show dates are May 12 and 13. The prize list amounts to £500, and there is to be a £65 trotting programme. This…

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At Dubbo Show

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 6 May 1926 · page 5

The special train from Gilgandra on Wednesday to the Dubbo Show accounted for 93 passengers. Some' discontent was noticeable among…

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Hospital Carnival

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 7 May 1926 · page 6

Notwithstanding the many high-class attractions that are running nightly in the street stalls for the hospital are holding their own, and even…

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Notes on the Show

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 7 May 1926 · page 4

Mr. Frank Mack, of Narramine S[?] tion, for so many years Presi[?]ent of the Dubbo P.A. and H. Association, who has lately been in very indifferent…

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Show Town at the Show Sidelights and Scenes. Winnie the Wonder and Freeko the Frog

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 7 May 1926 · page 3

Did you go through show-town at the show, that strange land of wizurdy and wonder, where even ordinary sobersides gaped with amazement and…

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10,000 See the Show Previous Records Far Surpassed. Striking Illustration of District Resources Supremacy in Sheep And. Agriculture--home Arts and Side Shows Impress

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 7 May 1926 · page 2

If the spirits of the men who in the misty past, laid the foundations of the Dubbo Agricultural Society, could look down from their eternal retting place on the show of 1926, what a tight would greet their eyes? Could they…

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