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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1929

76 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 4

Sports Carnival

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 23 May 1929 · page 2

The Tennis Club’s Sports Carnival to be held on King’s Birthday, Monday, 3rd June, is attracting considerable interest all around the district and…

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Sports Carnival

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 1

Given fine weather next Monday should see a record crowd in Queanbeyan Park to witness the sports carnival being conducted under the…

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Sports Carnival Splendid Cycling and Athletic Events

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 1

The dull weather prevented a large crowd from assembling in the Park yesterday when the Queanbeyan Tennis Club arranged an attractive sports…

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Canberra Polo Carnival Six Teams Entered

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 2

Arrangements for the Polo Carnival to be held by the Canberra Polo Club on July 31, August 1 and 2, on its ground on the Queanbeyan-Yass road,…

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Canberra Polo Carnival

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 August 1929 · page 1

On Wednesday under favourable weather condition the Canberra Polo Club’s annual carnival was commenced. For the Gidleigh Cup and…

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Business Efficiency Exhibition SEPT. 9th TO 13th INCLUSIVE

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 August 1929 · page 2

The 1929 Business Efficiency Exhibition will be again held in the Sydney Town Hall. The Office Appliances Trades Sectional Committee of the…

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Mothercraft Exhibition Articles Needed to Help Hospitals

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 August 1929 · page 3

The large committee of ladies organising the Mothecraft Exhibition in the Sydney Town Hall on Thursday and Friday, October 10th and 11th, make a…

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Dates for Next Show Committee in a Quandary

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 August 1929 · page 1

Another question which caused a good deal of discussion was the dates for next annual show, those chosen at last meeting being 13th, 14th, and…

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P. & a Society Preparing for Show

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 August 1929 · page 2

The committee met on Saturday, Mr. G. C. Maddrell presiding. There were present: Messrs. W. and L. Byrne, C. S. Byrne. T. A. Pass, J. F…

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Movie News Special Service from paramount Studios “The Queanbeyan Age”. “Thunderbolt” Opens New Show World. Show World

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 5 September 1929 · page 4

New Paramount dialogue pictures are announced for national release in five capital cities during Paramount Week, commencing Monday,…

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Men’s Hockey Goulburn’s Carnival

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 September 1929 · page 2

Last week end the Central Southern Hockey Association conducted a Hockey Carnival at Goulburn. It was the largest carnival yet held…

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Movie News Special Service from Paramount Studios for “The Queanbeyan Age”. Forty-five Sydney Pressmen See and Hear Paramount’s “New Show World.”

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 September 1929 · page 4

On Friday, August 30th, 45 editors critics and other representatives of the Sydney press, attended a screening of Paramount’s “New Show World”…

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A Fair Trial. How to Test Your Valves

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 September 1929 · page 2

Mr. Buckell, the valve expert of the British General Electric Company has his own method of testing valves. The other day somebody speculated…

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“Show People”

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 September 1929 · page 2

“Show People”, a film of life in the movies, and made by Metro-Goldwyn-Maher, opening at the Star Theatre on Wednesday and the Triumph Theater…

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P. & A. Sports Carnival

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 3 October 1929 · page 2

Affairs in connection with the Queanbeyan P. & A. Association’s Sports Carnival on Monday next, 7th instant (Eight-Hour Day) are shaping well…

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Methodist Flower Show

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 3 October 1929 · page 2

The Annual Flower Show in connection with the Methodist Church, Queanbeyan, is fast approaching and the Committee is hard at work to make…

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The Radio Exhibition Arrangements in Hand

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 3 October 1929 · page 4

The 1930 Electrical and Radio Exhibition arrangements are in hand. The committee decided this year, in view of the increasing interest of the…

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P. & A. Sports Carnival

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 October 1929 · page 2

The only fixture locally for Monday next (Eight-hour Day) is the sports carnival which will take place on the Showground under the auspices of the…

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Record Show at Hall

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 October 1929 · page 3

In glorious sunshine, the Advance Hall P. and A. Association held its Annual Show on Saturday last, with excellent results. Financially it far…

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Talkies for Queanbeyan Enterprising Picture Show Proprietor

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 10 October 1929 · page 1

Pitcure partons will be delighted to earn that Mr. W. B. Freebody has purchased a Western Electric sound equipment for the production of…

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