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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1953

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High School Swimming Carnival

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 4 March 1953 · page 1

Don Tomlinson and Helen Evans at the lunch break had a formidable lead in the Senior championships of the…

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Successful Show Promised Mendooran P.A. and H.

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 1

The Mendooran P. A. and H. Association met on Friday night to finalise arrangements for the show…

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Baradine Show Holiday

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 2

Coonabarabran Shire Cerk, Mr. G. A. Gould, reported yesterday that Baradine Show Day, Wednesday. March 18, had been…

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Three Records Broken at Swim Carnival

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 1

Three records were broken at the Dubbo High School's annual swimming carnival yesterday…

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Greatest Show Ever President, Secretary Forecast

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 1

The president and secretary of the Coonabarabran P. A. and H. Association, Messrs. G. Blackman and…

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Trotting at Show Former Supervisor Killed

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 3

Following the death of Mr. J. D. Casey, trotting supervisor and assessor to the NSW Trotting Club in an accident at the…

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Sydney Model (Here For Ambulance Show) Says Her Work Is Hard

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 1

Modelling is hard work. You may have beauty, a figure with all the attributes of Venus de Milo, but without what the French call savoir faire, and the Americans "IT," you may consider the profession…

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Back To Yeoval Celebrations To Conclude On Saturday Record Crowds This Week Augur Well For Saturdays Carnival

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 1

Record crowds which have packed the Yeoval Memorial Hall for every function and organised entertainment in the Back-to-Yeoval Week celebrations so far this week augur well for the success of the celebrations. On Saturday the celebrations will be climaxed by a…

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Swimming Carnival

The Western Herald · Friday 6 March 1953 · page 5

We would like to remind our readers again of the Swimming Carnival to be held at North Bourke…

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Bourke Show

The Western Herald · Friday 6 March 1953 · page 7

Elsewhere appears a notice ordered by the President (Mr. L. Davis) calling a meeting of…

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Trangie Show Dates Changed

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 6 March 1953 · page 1

To [?] with the Sydney [?] show the Trangie P.A. and [?] show h[?]…

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Record Entries at School Swimming Carnival

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 6 March 1953 · page 4

There were record entries at the Rural School swimming carnival which was held at the Narromine swimming…

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Sydney Models to Parade at Dubbo Carnival

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 6 March 1953 · page 1

A 45 foot stage with a caravan at each end for changing, will be used at tonight's Ambulance carnival when glamorous models from Sydney will show clothes worth over £1000 in a fashion parade, the…

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£4000 Raised At Back To Yeoval Week Celebrations Amazing Generosity By People At Saturday's Carnival

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 March 1953 · page 1

The Back-to-Yeoval Week celebrations, which concluded at Yeoval with a gay, happy carnival on Saturday afternoon, were a magnificent success and the profit from the effort is expected to exceed £4,000, which will be used to repay the debt on the Memorial Hall and build a modern sporting oval…

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Ambulance Carnival Was Success

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 2

Carnival spirit reigned high at No. 1 Oval on Friday evening when mannequin parades vied with "movies," Dutch auctions…

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Slow Goodnight Spoilt Show London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 3

Robert Fields every night, sat with his family around his TV set until the day Horace Cross started…

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Trangie Show Now On May 5 and 6

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 4

became western shows will be a week later this year the proposed Trangie. Show dates would clash with the Sydney Sheep Show, it was reported to a meeting of the Trangie show committee on Wednesday night. It was…

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Autumn Dahlia Show to Be Held in April

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 2

Further preparations have been made on Saturday for the Autumn Dahlia Show to be held on April 4, when it is…

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Mendooran Show Success

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 12 March 1953 · page 1

The 35th annual exhibition of the Mendooran Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Association on Tuesday was the greatest show in the history of the Association. Records were broken in respect to…

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Preparing for the Show

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 12 March 1953 · page 8

A meeting of the committee of the Gulargambone P. and A. Association was held last week…

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