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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1948

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Wools of the World Display At The Sydney Sheep Show

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 29 May 1948 · page 5

At the Sydney Sheep Show, which opens on Wednesday. June 2 and continues until Saturday June 5, the Rural Bank will…

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Bright Gay Follies Show

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1948 · page 1

The Gay Follies variety entertainment given at the Theatre Royal last night in aid of the Ambulance-Far West Children's Health…

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Show Secretary Wanted

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 2

An advertisement calling for applications for the position of secretary to the Coonabarabran P. and H. Association Appears in this…

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“Show Society Wants Revivifying —Inside and Out,” Says Secretary

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 1

Coonabarabran Pastoral and Agricultural Association needs revivifying, inside and out; said Mr. L. J. Failes, secretary, at the annual meeting of the Association last week. Mr. Failes, who tendered his…

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Latest Telegrams State Governor, Lt. General Northcott, on Australia's Wool and Sheep Industry. Governor Opens Sheep Show

The Western Herald · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 1

Sydney.—Declaring the Sydney Sheep Show Officially open, the State Governor, Lt. General Northcott, congratulated the exhibitors…

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Bathurst Show Profit £2109

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 2

The profit of the 1948 Bathurst A.P. and H. Association's annual show, was £2,109/1/8. This highly satisfactory result was revealed…

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Orange Cherry Blossom Carnival to Proceed

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 2

Despite apathy in certain subcommittees connected with the Carnival and a proposal that the project be dropped, a meeting…

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Two Narromine Teams For Mudgee Polo Carnival

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 1

The Narromine Polo Club is sending two teams to the [?]udgee Carnival on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. They leave [?] The A team comprises: R. M. Mack, No. 1…

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Associates Appointed To Accompany Show Judges

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 1

To [?] show committee as Saturday afternoon decided to [?] judges, many of them [?] Fer[?] to accompany the show judges and to [?] Peak Hill to [?] judges also. It was considered that this would [?] each…

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Narromine Projector to Show Files at Peak Hill

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 3

Mr. H. A. Southwell, of Narromine District Rural School, will give a demonstration at Peak Hill School on Wednesday night, June…

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Earlier Show Next Year

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 12

The small entries received in many sections of the last Coonabarabran Show were undoubtedly the result in many instances…

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Official Opening for Next Show

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 3

The importance of the social side of an annual exhibition by a Pastoral and Agricultural Society, and the prestige accrueing…

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District Exhibit for Next Show

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 2

Coonabarabran P. and A. Association decided at its annual meeting to organise a district exhibit for next year’s show…

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Two Prizes at Sydney Sheep Show

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 3

Mr. Neil McDonald, of “Downfield,” Coonabarabran, secured two prizes in the small graziers’ medium wool section of the…

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Poultry Club. Annual Show June 26 and 27

The Wellington Times · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 1

The second annual show of the Macquarie Poultry Club will be held at the Wellington Showground pavilion…

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[?] Studs at Narromine Show

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 1

This year there will be a section for stud merino sheep at the Narromine show. It was pointed out that the new…

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Handicraft and Antique Exhibition

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 June 1948 · page 2

Dubbo C.W.A. has arranged an exhibition of handicrafts and antiques to be held in the Rest Room next Friday afternoon and…

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Wellington Polo Players have Some Success at Rain-marred Mudgee Carnival

The Wellington Times · Monday 14 June 1948 · page 1

DESPITE extremely bad weather, the Mudgee Polo Carnival held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week was an outstanding success. Four polo teams and one polo Crosse team travelled from Wellington to…

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Mudgee Show Makes £388 Profit

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 1

Mudgee Agriculture Society made a profit of £388 on its 1948 show. Membership had shown a gratifying increase, 29 new…

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"Gay Paris" Is Really Gay Neon Lights And Carnival Air

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 3

This second instalment of letters received by Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Harvey of Kindalin, Dubbo, from their sea and daughter-in-law, who describe a recent visit to France tel's of life in Europe's gay…

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