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Riverina · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1934

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Good Start for Our Show Almost A Record Price Paid For Booth Rights

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 2

Show committeemen were jubilant on Saturday last over the prices realised for the rights of the various booths at the Gundagai P. and A…

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Wagga Carnival

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 2

Miss Joyce Cooper, the English champion, as well as Misses Bonnie Mealing, Dorothy Withers, Kitty Mackay, and Mollie Mitchell, inter-State…

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Swimming Wagga Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 2

The committee of the Wagga Beach Life Saving Club, with the assistance of Mr. H. J. Chaston and Mr. Roy Osmond, has everything in readiness…

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Great Show Night Attraction

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 1

The Montreal Theatre, Tumut, should be filled to overflowing on Show nights (Tuesday, 6th, and Wednesday, 7th March), when…

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Bowls Rain Stops Play at Country Week Carnival

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 1

Heavy rain on Wednesday night made the Sydney bowline greens utterly unfit for the continuation of the programme of the country carnival on…

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Sheep at Wagga Show Building Up Interest

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 2

For the last few years the accommodation for sheep at the Wagga show has been most unsatisfactory. Last year the poultry exhibits were housed…

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Yanco Swimming Carnival T. Wood Half-mile Champion New Riverina Record

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 2

The Yanco Swimming Club held its first carnival at the Leeton Baths on Sunday last. The attendance though good, was not up to…

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Ambulance Jubilee Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 2

Beginning on Saturday night next the Ambulance carnival will take place on the School of Arts grounds. The grounds will look attractive and…

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Swimming Wagga Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 2

Pessimists have stated that the river will be too high to-day for the holding of the Wagga Beach Life Saving Club's carnival. Officials of the club…

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Sheep at the Wagga Show

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 2

With the encouraging upswing in wool prices added to the general trend towards better times, it is only to be expected that the sheep classes at the forthcoming Wagga show will have considerably increased entries…

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Wagga Horticultural Society Monthly Meeting Exhibition of Beautiful Blooms

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the Wagga and District Horticultural Society was held last night at the Town Hall. The president (Mr A. H. Smith) presided…

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Poultry Notes Birds for Show Hints on Preparation

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 6

Commercial poultry farmers who study the matter of quality in their birds and exhibit some in the utility classes at shows are often at a…

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Swimming Wagga Carnival Outstanding Success Large Attendance

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 March 1934 · page 4

The Wagga Beach Life Saving Club swimming carnival was held at the Wagga beach yesterday in beautiful weather. It was estimated that the…

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Tumut Show Record Entries Fine Weather Forecast a Wonderful Exhibition

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 2

The Tumut Show if 1934 promises to establish a record, both from the point of the number of entries and the quality of the exhibits, the entry…

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Swimming Wagga Carnival

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 5

The Wagga Beach Life Saving and Swimming Club held its carnival on Wednesday in beautiful weather. It was estimated that 2000 people were…

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Swimming Carnival Crowd at Railway Dam

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 4

Wednesday afternoon was warm again—an inviting day to be in the water. Hence a crowd went to the railway dam to swim of…

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Coolamon Silver Jubilees Show. Special Donations

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 2

The following are the [?] which [?] as to the Coolamon Silver Jubilees Show, at and [?] the smoke social last week. The…

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STANLEY McKAY'S Gaieties of 1934. Show Nights Attraction

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 5

Stanley McKay. after an absence of same two, years, is to revist Tumin with his big new Sydney Company presenting "the Gaulies of 1934' at…

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70Th Anniversary Wagga Show Governor-General to be Invited

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 5

The Mayor of Wagga (Alderman E E. Collins) presided at a meeting of aldermen and officials of the Murrumbidgee Turf Club and the…

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Wagga Swimming Carnival Tumut Swimmers Do Well Jack and Jean Smart Win

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 2

The Wagga swimming carnival was held in ideal weather on Wednesday at the Wagga bathing beach. The river was fairly high and the…

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