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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1964

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Queanbeyan bowlers successful in Christmas carnival

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 January 1964 · page 8

Queanbeyan bowlers performed well in the big Canberra-Queanbeyan carnival, held during the Christmas-New Year holiday period. Many visiting, players from Sydney and…

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Preparations for show at Bungendore are well under way

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 January 1964 · page 1

Preparations for the 1964 Bungendore Show, to be held on the Australia Day holiday, January 27, are well in hand and the committee is optimistic that the results will exceed the record 1963 effort…

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Show Jottings

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 January 1964 · page 3

The office of the Queanbeyan P. A. and H. Association in Farrer Place will be open every day from 9…

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Trick riders for show

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 January 1964 · page 3

Queanbeyan P, A. and H Association is engaging a trick riding team headed by Miss Faye [?] to…

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Bungendore’s Annual Show Records tipped in many spheres

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 January 1964 · page 1

Bungendore’s Fifth Annual Show gets under way at 9.30 a.m. on Monday and officials anticipate many old records to be broken. Officials believe that the…

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Swimming Swimmers prepare for carnival

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 January 1964 · page 8

Much enthusiasm marked the Queanbeyan Olympic Swimming Club’s point score races on Wednesday night and swimmers should be fit for the Club's 3rd Annual…

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Show results on

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 January 1964 · page 1

Some results and details of the Annual Show at Bungendore are published in today’s issue…

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Bungendore Show Record Broken Again

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 January 1964 · page 1

The attendance record for the Bungendore Annual Show was broken for the fifth successive time yesterday, when just over £356 was paid by patrons for admission to the 1964 exhibition…

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Vegetables at the Show Local grower takes top prize honors

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 January 1964 · page 4

Local identity, Mr. Roy Woodfield, was the most successful exhibitor in the vegetable section of the Bungendore Show yesterday, he won prizes in a number…

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Horse events were a feature of annual show at Bungendore

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 January 1964 · page 4

Horse events were a feature of Bungendore’s Fifth Annual yesterday, the main arena being a hive of activity from 9.30 a.m. until well after 7 p.m. last night. officials kept the…

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Show Jottings

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 January 1964 · page 4

At Tuesday night’s meeting of the P. A. and H. Association Committee it was stated that it had not been…

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Show Officials

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 January 1964 · page 1

THE president and secretary of the Bungendore P. A. and H. Society, Mr. L. Reardon (left) and Mr. W. H. Edmonds. These two chief executive officers led a strong and hard-working committee which made…

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Top swimmers to compete at carnival

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 January 1964 · page 1

Swimmers will be. here from all clubs in the Southern Districts for the Queanbeyan Amateur…

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Snapshots From the Bungendore Show

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 January 1964 · page 5

MISS FELL EDMONDS of Bungendore (top) tattles happily after her horse, Bay Boy, had been judged the champion hack. Miss Edmonds is a regular exhibitor and prizewinner at district shows (Bottom) : MR. JOHN DONNELLY, of “The Briars,” with Mackari Statesman, the champion harness horse. Mr. Donnelly is…

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Sidelights of the show at Bungendore

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 January 1964 · page 3

The Governor General, Viscount De L’IsIe, paid an unofficial visit to the Bungendore Show on Monday…

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To Give at Show

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 February 1964 · page 1

MISS FAYE GRAINGER, of Norlane, Vic., who will give an exhibition of trick riding with…

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Record Show Forecast As Entries Mount

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 February 1964 · page 1

Committee members this week are busy making final preparations for the 1964 Queanbeyan Show, to be held next Friday and Saturday. Indications already point to another record exhibition…

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Trick Cycle Riders at the Show

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 February 1964 · page 1

TWO members of the “Kamikaze” motor cycle trick-riding team give a demonstration of their…

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Success in Child Art Exhibition

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 February 1964 · page 4

Three Queanbeyan children were successful in having their entries highly commended in the current…

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Trick rider prepares for show

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 February 1964 · page 1

TRICK riding expert, Miss Faye Grainger, pictured with two of the twelve horses she has brought to the Queanbeyan Annual Show. Miss Grainger will give exhibitions of trick riding in the main arena tonight and again tomorrow afternoon…

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