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Shows & fairs, 1938

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1938 Royal Easter Show Revisions and Additions

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 January 1938 · page 5

The Royal Agricultural Society of both in the number of exhibits and endeavour to surpass all records both in the number if exhibits and…

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Eighty Killed At Japanese Cinema Show Tokio

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 6

Eighty were killed, 23 seriously injured, and 43 slightly injured when the roof of a cinema at Tokomachi collapsed under five…

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Many Rescues on Beaches Heavy Seas at Bondi Narrow Escapes at Surf. Carnival Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 4

At least 50 rescues were effected on Sydney beaches to-day—many in most gallant fashion—a treacherous current combining with very heavy seas to…

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Marcus Show Dancer Injured Found Lying in Street Victim of Assault Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 1

Found lying unconscious on the foot-path in busy Bourke-street last night, when the New Year's Eve celebrations were at their height, Audrey Foley, aged…

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Imperial Fruit Show Awards

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 2

The Department of Commerce has issued a list of the prizewinners at the recent Birmingham Fruit Show and Canners' Exhibition, in which…

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Skidding Rodeo Exciting Traffic Exhibition Teaching Safe Driving

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 3

A bus rodeo staged at their Chiswick works by London Transport was like a mechanised wild west show, says the "News Chronicle."…

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Country Week Carnival Three Albury Teams to Compete

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 8

Three tennis teams from the Albury and Border Tennis Association will compete at the New South Wales Country Week carnival to be held in Sydney…

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SWIMMING The Hillston Carnival

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 2

Swimmers to represent Leeton at Hillston, in the Riverina championship events, will be selected from the following:—110 yards senior…

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Swimming Batlow Carnival

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 4

There is an opportunity offered both to swimmers and also those who desire a pleasant day's outing. The carnival is to be held at Batlow in…

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Carnival Dates S.w. Swimming Clubs

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 4

Young, January 26, 1938. Temora February 9, 1938. West Wyalong, Feb. 28 1938. The programme for the…

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Hospital Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 6

The annual carnival of Wagga Base Hospital will be held in the School of Arts grounds from Tuesday, January 25, to Saturday, January 29. This…

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Batlow Carnival

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 5

Here is an opportunity offered both to swimmers and also those who desire a pleasant day’s outing. The carnival is to be held at Batlow on…

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Molleen Death of Well Known Show Pony

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 10

Mr. R. J. Cunningham has received notice from the common authorities of the death of his famous pony Molleen. This pony attained nearly a…

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Nurse Annoyed Old Man at a Picture Show

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 3

Miss T. Christie, of Brighton road, South Croydon (London), hurried from the auditorium of a local picture theatre recently, followed by an enraged old…

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Preparing for the Show P. and A. Committee Make Plans

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 2

An enthusiastic meeting of the Gundagai P. and A. Society was held last evening, when much ground work was prepared for the 1938…

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Swimming Carnival

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 2

The Batlow Swimming Carnival, under the aegis of the S.D.S.A., takes place on Sunday next. A capable programme of events is…

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Wagga Stock Sales Fat Cattle Show Improvement

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 2

The associated agents of Wagga (Dalgety and Co. Ltd., S. V. Best and Co., the Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co., Younghusband Ltd., and the…

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Surfers' Ingratitude Little Thanks for Rescuers Some Show Resentment

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 3

The remarkable ingratitude of surfers who have been rescued from dangerous situations by surf, life-savers—or, at least, their lack of graciousness—is…

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Death of Show Pony

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 16

The well-known Shaw pony, Molleen, owned and bred by Mr. R. J. Cunningham, of Wagga, has died on the Wagga common. The pony…

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Japan to Show What She is Made of! Must Have Markets Tokio

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 1

Admiral Ryozo Nakamura, the so-called brains of the navy, states that Japan must show western nations what she made of so that they will realise she must expand. "We should spread our strength overseas to ensure access to undeveloped markets…

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