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Shows & fairs, 1936

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Bowls Christmas Carnival at Wagga

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 6

The Christmas bowls carnival was held at the Wagga and Bolton Park greons, members of the Wagga, Bolton Park and several district clubs…

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Wangaratta Athletic Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 7

The Wangaratta athletic carnival to be held on January 25 and 27 will include a great variety of sporting events. There will be a special cinder…

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Swimming Carnival Championships at Wagga

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 6

A swimming carnival will be held at the Wagga Bathing Beach on Monday, January 27, under the auspices of the Wagga Beach Life Saving…

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Narandera Swimming Club New Year's Day Carnival

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 1

There was only a small attendance at the New Year's Day Carnival of the Navandera Swimming Club, the gate takings amounting to £5. The…

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£400,000 Plant General Motors Show the Way to Returning Prosperity

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 4

With a record Christmas, and a general improvement in trade convincing the man in the street that the long-awaited prosperity has definitely…

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Wool Sales Sydney Prices Show Increase Rates Up Five Per Cent. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 3

Under very strong competition from Yorkshire and Japan, supported to a great extent by the Continent, values at the first wool sales of the new year…

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Atheletic Carnival Wabgaratta Ficture

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 6

The Wangaratta Athletic Club will hold a carnival on January 25 and 27 the prize money offered totalling £650. The sports ground is well appointed with…

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SWIMMING Cootamundra's First Annual Carnival S.W.D.A.S.A. Championships. Elaborate Programme

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 4

The Cootamundra Swimming and Life Saving Club will hold its first annual championship carnival at the Olympic pool on Wednesday evening, 22nd…

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Ardlethan Show, 1936 Grain Sections

The Ardlethan-Beckom Times · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 2

As wheat grading is now in progress, is seems an opportune time to remind farmers of the very poor wheat show staged year after year…

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Johnnie Williams Writes Experiences at Carnival

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 7

JOHNNIE WILLIAMS the local Junior swimmer who competed in the State swimming championships carnival at…

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Young Carnival Goodman's Fine Swim Rain Interferes

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 4

The Young Amateur Swimming Club held their annual championship carnival last Wednesday afternoon, under adverse weather conditions…

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Travelling Motor Show Reaches Sydney

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 6

The latest example of enterprise in the motor sales field by General Motors Holdens Ltd. is the travelling motor show, which was in Leeton a…

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More and Better Wheat Crop Competitions Show the Way

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 7

What part have the annual crop, competitionS played in the advance in the wheat culture and in productions. In what way could this stimulus to better…

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£400,000 Plant General Motors Show Way to Returning Prosperity

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 8

WITH a record Christmas and a general improvement in trade convincing the man in the street that the long-awaited…

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One Man Show Hearst's Enormous Enterprise Man of Prodigious Memory Controller of Reproduction

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 8

Think of a big room in California, hung with tapestry from Flanders, dominated by a mantel before which the Doges warmed themselves. In the…

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More and Better Wheat Crop Competition Show the Way. (Issued by the R.S. [?])

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 3

[?] have the annual [?] Played in the [?] and in producing [?] what [?] this [?]…

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Swimming Batlow's Carnival

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 5

Mr. W. F. ("Bill") Ross, M.L.A., will open the Batlow Swimming Carnival next Sunday at 1.30 p.m. The carnival, which is the first for the…

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Easter Monday Carnival

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 3

It was resolved to forward a letter to the Municipal Council asking it to put the sprint track in order for Easter Monday…

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Cootamundra's Swimming Carnival

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 2

Local entries for the above close to-night. Up till this morning there were 20 enteries from Grenfell, 12 from Wagga,…

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Trotting Carnival Deferred Perth

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 6

The inter-Dominion trotting championships, which were to have been held on February 1, have been postponed for one week…

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