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Shows & fairs, 1939

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Championship Swimming Carnival Moderate Attendance Narandera Competitors Win Three Championships

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 3

The annual championship swimming carnival was conducted at the Lake Sunday last, when there was a moderate attendance of…

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Royal Easter Show Plans Under Way £15,500 Prize Schedule Features 10 Days' Programme

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 4

In the next few weeks the vast organisation necessary to stage the Royal Easter Show will be functioning in earnest. For months now the…

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Accident at Show

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 7

A Judgment of considerable interest to agricultural societies throughout Australia was delivered by acting Judge Fuller in the District Court at Lismore…

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Wheats From N.s.w. Win at Chicago Show

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 2

Four New South Wales wheatgrowers gained the four awards in the class for white wheats at fee International Livestock Exposition and Grain and…

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Swimming Interest in Hillston Carnival

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 2

POINT score races will be held as usual on Sunday morning. Water polo players are also asked to attend for practice…

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Show Associations' Liability Important Judgment in Accident Claim

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 3

A judgment of considerable interest to agricultural societies throughout Australia was delivered by acting Judge Fuller in the District Court at…

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Australia at the World's Fair

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1939 · page 4

The bulk of Australia's exhibits for display at the New York World's Fair, opening on April 30, have been shipped by the City of Delhi, which left…

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Dionne Quintuplets Not for Exhibition

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1939 · page 1

CALLANDER (Ontario), Thursday.—It is reported that the New York Fair meeting has offered the Dionne quintuplets' guardians 50 per cent of the…

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Wagga Wool For Exhibition at San Francisco

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 January 1939 · page 15

Following the residing of a letter from the Secretary of the California Wool Growers Association, to Mr. W. M. Hammond, president of the…

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Rome Exhibition Britain to Be Represented Rome

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1939 · page 8

It is announced that, during the visit to Rome, Mr. Chamberlain informed Signor Mussolini of the British Government's Intention to be…

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T.B. Free Cattle for Exhibition Purposes Railway Co-operation Necessary

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 January 1939 · page 6

Unless the co-operation of the railway authorities is obtained for the proposal to restrict dairy cattle exhibited at the 1940 and future Royal Easter…

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Laundry Owners Southern Association Formed Affiliation with Parent Body Discussed Exhibition and Training Centre

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 January 1939 · page 6

With the object of forming an association of laundry owners in the southern part of the State, a conference of proprietors of southern…

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Wagga Base Hospital Annual Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1939 · page 4

The Wagga Base Hospital annual carnival will be held from Tuesday to Saturday night next, on the vacant land at the rear of the School of Arts…

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Adelong Swimming Carnival Very Successful Function M. Watts and W. Pedder (Waqga) Win Championship Events. Tumut Swimmers Successful

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 24 January 1939 · page 2

The Adelong Swimming Club held their annual aquatic carnival on Sunday afternoon, and it proved highly successful in all respects. Excellent…

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Plea for Show Judges

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 5

Because of the valuable nature of their work, cattle breeders consider that all judges at agricultural shows should be granted from railway passes. At…

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SWIMMING Gundagai's Annual Carnival

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 4

The popular annual carnival on the Murrumbidgee at South Gundagai is advertised for Sunday week, the programme of swimming events starting…

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Swimming Batlow Swimming Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 7

The Anniversary Day swimming carnival will be held at Batlow on Monday and a contingent of Wagga swimmers are taking part in the sports…

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Don't Miss It! Hillston Swimming Carnival

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 2

On Monday next a Riverina Championship Swimming Carnival will be held at the Swimming Pool, when it is anticipated that all previous…

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No Clash in Show Dates

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 4

With the exception of the Young Pastoral and Agricultural Association, every show society in the Eastern and South-western Show Societies'…

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Hospital Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 2

Arrangements are now complete for the annual carnival of the Wagga Base Hospital to be held in the grounds at the rear of the School of Arts next…

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