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Riverina · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1922

611 stories in Riverina's papers · page 17 of 31

Items of News. Wagga Show Amusements

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 August 1922 · page 2

For the space set apart for side-shows at the Wagga Show next week, so many applications have been received that the committee is finding it difficult to…

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Show Finances. a Veritable Tangle. Unravelling the Knot

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 17 August 1922 · page 3

There was another attempt made on Tuesday by Gundagai P and A. Society people to get out of the financial maze. It was…

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Griffith Agricultural Society

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 18 August 1922 · page 2

A committee meeting of the above society was held on Saturday last. Mr. A. J. Furness, president) in the chair. The reports of the delegates…

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Show Concert

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 18 August 1922 · page 2

A very successful concert in aid of the funds of the Coolamon A. and P. Association was held in Furner's Hall on Monday night list, The programme bad…

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Show Week Innovation

The Daily Express · Friday 18 August 1922 · page 2

A feature of the social arrangements for Show week will be the establishment of a luncheon room and cafe at St. John’s Hall under the…

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Local and General. Soldiers’ Carnival

The Daily Express · Friday 18 August 1922 · page 2

The secretary of the Wagga Branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League, has been instructed to communicate with the…

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Bomb Dropping Exhibition. Tragic Mistake Made. Spectators Bombed. BERLIN

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 18 August 1922 · page 1

During a bomb dropping exhibition at a Polish aerodrome at Putzi bombs fell among the crowd of spectators. Ten were killed and fifty injured…

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Wagga Show. Detailed Arrangements Discussed by Committee

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 August 1922 · page 4

At the meeting of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association Committee yesterday afternoon 30 members discussed the final arrangements…

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Wagga Show Meeting of Committee Finalising Arrangements

The Daily Express · Friday 18 August 1922 · page 2

A largely attended committee meeting of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held yesterday afternoon, the President,…

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Show Trains

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 August 1922 · page 4

Published in to-day's issue is a detailed schedule of the special trains that the Show Committee has arranged to be run to and from the Show Ground on…

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Show Dates

The Daily Express · Saturday 19 August 1922 · page 2

The very inclement weather which for nearly three months has made business bad in Wagga is continuing right up to the eve of the annual…

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Union Theatres—show Week

The Daily Express · Saturday 19 August 1922 · page 4

Mr. L. W. Arding Thomas, Wagga manager for the Union Theatres, Ltd., announced to-day the following arrangements in connection with the…

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Local and General. Henty Show

The Daily Express · Saturday 19 August 1922 · page 2

The Henty P. and A. Society has Issued its schedule for a two days’ show on September 26 and 27. The entries close on Monday, September…

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Progressive Wagga Show Shopping Edmondson’s Emporium

The Daily Express · Saturday 19 August 1922 · page 4

Many folk of the Riverina, resident far distant from Wagga, make Show time the period for an annual visit to the central city of the South. To…

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Show Week

The Daily Express · Monday 21 August 1922 · page 2

To-day Wagga begins its “Show Week and to-morrow the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association will open its gates to the…

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Show Races

Daily Advertiser · Monday 21 August 1922 · page 4

The M.T.C. is completing arrangements for its Show carnival races, to be held on Friday and Saturday next. An interesting programme of sport has…

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Show Attractions

Daily Advertiser · Monday 21 August 1922 · page 2

Among the side shows at the Show Ground this week will be an interesting exhibit in the form of the petrified body of an aboriginal woman which was found…

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Joy Zone at the Show a Giant Ox

The Daily Express · Monday 21 August 1922 · page 2

Mr. Dave Mcekin, a showing[?] long standing has sent [?] year to tho Wagga show [?] non-competitive [?] the [?]…

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Wagga Show. Commences To-day. Brilliant Carnival Assured

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 August 1922 · page 2

The great Riverina festival, the Wagga Show, under the suspices of the M.P. and A. Association, will open to-day on the spacious showgrounds at…

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Hospital Carnival

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 22 August 1922 · page 4

The weekly meeting of the Hospital Carnival Committee was held at the Mechanic Institute on Friday evening last, there being present…

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