Stunt men may feature at show
Queanbeyan PA and H Association is negotiating with a Victorian stunt team known as “Impact Promotions” with a view to engaging them for the annual show on February 13…
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Shows & fairs, 1970
93 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 5
Show jottings
At the last meeting of Queanbeyan P. A. and H. Association, a vote of congratulations was extended…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queanbeyan Misses Out Show Grant
Queanbeyan has missed out on an allocation from grants totalling $40,000 and loans totalling $43,773 announced this week for maintenance and improvement works on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stuntmen For-show
Queanbeyan P.A. and H. Association has confirmed the booking of a team of TV and film…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gate takings up $477 Record show at Bungendore
Bungendore’s 1970 annual show will go down as a record breaker in most departments, particularly in-so-far as gate takings and ring events are concerned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Show jottings
Queanbeyan P. A. and H. Association has not taken up an offer by the popular “Birdman” of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Banks at Sheep Show
Visitors to Sydney for this year’s Sheep Show will find the Rural Bank occupying its usual position…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Working bees prepare for annual show
Working bees commenced on Tuesday of this week to prepare Queanbeyan showground…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bowls Carnival Benefits Marymead
Queanbeyan resident, Mrs, Bernie Scanlon (left) offers the Mother Superior (right) and a Sister sweets during the barbecue at Marymead on Saturday evening. Proceeds from the Canberra-Queanbeyan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Increased District Show Gates
The outstanding success of the Bungendore and Braidwood shows augers well for the 1970…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Swimmers do well in Sydney carnival
Three young Queanbeyan swimmers have done well at a combined swimming carnival held on Saturday at the Granville pool in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Theme for Art Show
The theme suggested for the art exhibition to be held in Queanbeyan as part of the Captain Cook…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Teamwork Essence of Show Success
The success the annual Queanbeyan show enjoys is a reflection of the close and exacting teamwork and the months of patient organising involved. A function of such magnitude could not survive otherwise. However many people…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Ring events a show highlight
Heavy entries in the horse section ensures that the ring events will again be a big attraction at the 1970 Queanbeyan show, to be held next Friday and Saturday. Entries are at least the equal of last year, when a…
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Six slipstone peaches exhibited by E. Connell were awarded the champion ribbon as the outstanding exhibit in the fruit section of the Queanbeyan show today…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →RECORD-BREAKING 1970 Show Anticipated Who will be Miss Showgirl?
Queanbeyan’s 75th annual show, which opened this morning, given fine weather, has all the ingredients of being the record breaker it has proved in recent years…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Good Neighbour Council Support for Local Exhibition
The Queanbeyan branch of the Good Neighbour Council has joined with the local Art Society and Photographic Society to present “200 Years of Australiana” — a three-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ambulance Had a Quiet Show
The 1970 Queanbeyan show was almost incident free insofar as the team of ambulance…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First Cat Show This
The Monaro District Cat Club, which is centred on Queanbeyan, will conduct its first show…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Queanbeyan Age Show Pictorial, 1970
THERE was beauty as well as beasts at the record breaking 1970 Queanbeyan Show. Originally shows were a display for livestock and horticulture alone, but in recent years shows have become display media for the young and attractive girls of the town and district The 1970 Miss Queanbeyan Showgirl, Miss Gay Castles receives the winner’s sash from the Mayoress, Mrs. Land while the Show Society President, Mr. Phil Hardy looks on approvingly. The supreme championship sash for the best beef animal of the show, went to “Gobarralong Royal,” exhibited by J. H. Crow, of Gundagai,…
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