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Shows & fairs, 1946

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Next Sydney Show

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 2

Preparations for Sydney's Royal Easter Show, which will be held from March 21 to April 9, Inclusive, next year are already in…

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Swimming, Carnival at West Wyalong

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 3

Robin Biddulph, of Grenfell, exState Champion swimmer, was the star attraction at the West Wyalong swimming carnival. Biddulph, who…

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Tumut Fair Rents Court

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 2

At the Tumut Fair Uvula Court last week before Mr. Hardwick, P.M., Alan Arthur Jones, master choicer of Wynyard-Street, Tumut…

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Royal Show In 1947

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 1

ADVICE has been received from the Army authorities that the Sydney Showground will be vacated in sufficient time to…

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Presentations to Miss Tweedie by Rice Executives and Show Society

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 2

AS briefly mentioned in our last issue, Miss Marie Tweedie, who left Leeton on Friday last, to take up kindergaKen welfare…

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Swimming Junee Carnival

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 8

Owing to the fact that the Junee club is holding its annual carnival next Saturday, the Gundagai club finds it impossible to seal along a…

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A Caravan Dweller Appeals to Fair Rents Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 2

A ripple of amusement thai relieved the tension of court habitues as they listened with suppressed excitement to the vivid recital of wild and…

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Adelong Show

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 2

As announced in earlier issues, the Adelong P. and A. Society has been revived and the first Adelong Show for many years will be held on Saturday,…

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Tumut's Victory Show

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 3

Tumut's 71st (Victory) Show will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 5 and 6. Entries are already flowing in;…

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Tumbarumba Show Keen Preparations

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 4

The committee of the Tumbarumba Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Society is determined to leave no stone unturned to make…

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Junior farmers' Show at Gundagai

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 4

The Gundagai Junior Farmers' was formed about 18 held its first annual show at Anzac Park, Gundagai, on…

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Boxing Disgraceful Exhibition of Refereeing last Night’s Bouts At Tumuf

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 21 February 1946 · page 8

One of the worst exhibitions of refereeing ever to be witnessed, occurred at Tumut yesterday evening, when Bill Bamford gave decisions…

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Batlow Methodist Flower Show

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 1

Despite the counter attraction of sports at [?] and the usual [?] of shortages of [?] goods. [?] Methodists…

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Preparing Pigs For Show Hints For Intending Exhibitors

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 4

Pigs for exhibition require to be well fed, but they should not be overfat, as this seriously affects them afterwards as satisfactory…

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Bowls. Country Week Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 February 1946 · page 8

SYDNEY, Friday: J. Cummins (Hamilton) will contest the semi-final of Country Week bowls singles championship. To-day he defeated…

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Albury Sheep Show in August

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 February 1946 · page 2

The Albury Show Society has fixed the date for its sheep show for August 6 and 7, and word has been received that the Duke of…

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Tumbarumba Show Keen Preparations

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 2

The committee of the Tumbarumba Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Society is determined to leave no stone unturned to make its…

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All Set for Next Month's Show Gundagai Will Stage An Outstanding Cattle Exhibition There'll Be Side Shows Galore

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 4

Already entries are pouring in for Gundagai's Victory Show to be oh March 19 and 20 next. So large are the number of exhibits in cattle section that the society has had to appoint three separate judges for the Hereford, Aberdeen. Angus and Shorthorn sections,…

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Riverina District News Batlow Methodist Flour Show

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 4

The annual Batlow Methodist flower show end industrial exhibition was held on February 16, in fine and cool weather. There was…

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Gloucesters at Braidwood Show Wood-Chopping Championship

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 5

CANBERRA, Sunday: Two sulkies collided during the Trotting Cup at the Braidwood Show yesterday afternoon and three drivers…

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