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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1956

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

Rose Show Postponed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 November 1956 · page 1

Queanbeyan Horticultural Society has postponed its second annual rose show which was to have been held in the…

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Postponed from floral Festival All-Rose Show This

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 November 1956 · page 1

The Horticultural Society’s annual all rose show will be staged in the new C.W.A. Rooms in Crawford Street on Saturday. The show was to have been…

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Good Crowd at Bungendore Flower Show

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 November 1956 · page 1

A large number of people attended the Annual Presbyterian Flower Show held in Bungendore last Saturday…

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Trotting Events as Star Attraction Tharwa J.F.C. Show Brings Good Entries

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 November 1956 · page 1

Every indication is that the Tharwa Junior Junior Farmers’ Sixth Annual Show to be held on Queanbeyan Showground on Saturday will be the club’s…

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Never Seen Blooms Like Them, says Judge President of National Rose Society Praises Queanbeyan’s Show

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 November 1956 · page 1

Some of the roses exhibited at the Queanbeyan Horticultural Society’s second All-Rose Show exceeded any he had seen anywhere in size and form, Mr. J. K. Keogh said when he opened the show on Saturday…

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Judges Praise Tharwa Junior Farmess’ Show

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 December 1956 · page 4

This show is a credit to the Tharwa Club and one of the biggest Junior enterprises in the state ,” the state president of the Council of Junior Farmers (Mr. Frank McTackett) said on Saturday…

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Keen Trots at Tharwa J.f. Show

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 December 1956 · page 3

STRAINING hard in the harness, Shevrane pulls away to win from Highland Master and Gumboil in an exhibition trotting race at the Tharwa Junior Farmers’ Show at Queanbeyan show ground one Saturday.the trotting events were a highlight of the programme…

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Local Boxers Fought Well at Young Carnival

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 December 1956 · page 5

Promising young Queanbeyan Billy Ebsworth proved one of the star attractions at the boxing carnival held in the…

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Cricketers Hope for Fair Weather

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 December 1956 · page 7

The sixth round of A.C.T. competition cricket, the last before the Christmas break, will be concluded to-morrow…

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