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Shows & fairs, 1946

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Australian Rules. Knockout Carnival Next Month Sixteen Teams May Participate

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 May 1946 · page 6

At least 16 teams are expected to take part in an Australian Rules knock-out carnival to be held at the Wagga Showground on Monday…

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Wagga Cup Attracts Record Attendance Annual Turf Carnival Has Brilliant First Day

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 May 1946 · page 1

A record crowd of nearly 7000 yesterday saw Peter win the Wagga Cold Cup. It was a glorious day. Late autumn sunshine flooded the picturesque course, enhancing the sheen of the thoroughbreds, the…

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Presbyterian Flower Show & Fair Outstanding Success

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 5

Although the day season adversely [?] the flower exhibits the [?] Flower Show and [?] of [?] week was [?] success…

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Show Schedule Advertising

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 2

At the last Show Committee meeting, the Secretary explained that revenue from advertising in the Show Schedule went into the Association’s…

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Coolamon Show Committee Meeting

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 2

[?] was a large attendance at the monthly meeting of the Coolamon A. and F. Association, last week. Those [?] were Mr. l. Dyce (President)…

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Show Did Not Come Off!

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 5

Cootamundra was to have had a feast of good music on Tuesday night and last night—an "Evening of Stars." sent for a country circuit by…

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Roxy Theatre Big Week-end Show

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 2

A man's murderous but unfounded jealousy, his wife's terror and the helpless entanglements of a stranger who finds himself in love with the…

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Riverina District News Carnival on Sunday "Not Right Thing" Lockhart Shire Council Meeting

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 4

The question of whether organised carnivals should be conducted on Sundays was raised at the monthly meeting of the…

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Australian Rules Yerong Creek Knockout Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 May 1946 · page 6

An Australian rules knockout carnival will be held at Yerong Creek on Monday. June 17, and there will be a dance at night in…

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GUNDAGAI 1947 Show to Be Held Last Week in February All Stud Cattle To Be Certified Disease Free Big Gymkhana to Be Held in August

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 May 1946 · page 1

The 1947 Gundagai Show will be held on Friday and Saturday 27th and 28th February. This decision, made at the annual meeting of the P. & A. Society on Saturday last, took into consideration the fact that Saturday will be the universal half-holiday, and that stud cattle…

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Show Committee Meeting

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 2

On Friday night the president, Mr. Norman Reading, had 18 committee men at the meeting. Further details were attended to for…

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Sydney Sheep Show

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 1

The first post-war Sydney sheep show will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 31 and June 1, it has been, announced by the N.S.W…

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Flower Show Presbyterian Ladies' Effort

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 1

Mrs. R. Gray, the guild president, and Mrs. Stan Nicholson, the hon. secretary of the flower show, and all the members of the Lockhart…

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Grafton Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 May 1946 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wed.: Tbe Australian Broadcasting Commission is considering sending a musical unit of 30 artists to the Grafton annual…

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Infested Sheep Barred From Sydney Show

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 May 1946 · page 4

Firmer action is to be taken, beginning with the sheep show to be held in Sydney on May 31 and June 1 in regard to sheep infested…

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THE U.H.A. CARNIVAL Net Profit £87/13/3

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 24 May 1946 · page 2

At the monthly meeting of the Leeton District Hospital the balance sheet of the U.H.A. Carnival was presented and showed that the total…

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Gluten in Wheat What Is It? Coolamon Show Competition

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 24 May 1946 · page 4

At the last Coolamon Show meeting it was announced that the Coolamon “Review” would donate a first and second prize for the bushels of…

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R.A.S. Show Plans For Next Year

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 May 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Plans to reintroduce Sydney's Royal Easter Show next year may be speeded up as the result of s conference during…

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Showmen’s Guild Criticised By Western Show Officials

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 27 May 1946 · page 6

Criticising attitude of the Showmen's Guild at country shows Mr Whiteley, of Wellington, declared that they would have to be…

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Next Year's Show Dates

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 28 May 1946 · page 5

Considerable discussion took place as to when next year's Show would be held in view of the Saturday half-holiday…

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