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Shows & fairs, 1947

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Thousands Witness Easter Carnival at Griffith

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 April 1947 · page 2

GRIFFITH, Sunday: The Griffith Easter carnival was an outstanding success. More than 2500 people witnessed the rodeo and ring events, and a similar crowd watched the national dancing. THE entertainment was of a…

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Record Show Crowd Sweeps Police Aside

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 April 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: More than a quarter of a million people made an all-time attendance record at the Royal Easter Show yesterday and…

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"Back to Henty" Visitors Throng Town; Big Carnival To-day

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 April 1947 · page 2

Henty is thronged with visitors and holiday-makers for the concluding days of the "Back to Henty" celebrations. Former residents have returned to take part in the…

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Serious Injuries at Royal Show Yesterday

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 April 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Many accidents and minor mishaps were dealt with by ambulance men at the Royal Show to-day…

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Riverina District News 2000 Attend Final Day of Griffith Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 April 1947 · page 4

GRIFFITH, Monday: More than 2000 attended the third day of the Griffith Bushmen's Carnival. The high standard of entertainment set on Saturday and yesterday was…

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Poultry Notes Wagga Show Turkeys Are High Class

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 April 1947 · page 4

Poultry at the Sydney Royal Show faced the judges last week, for the first time since 1939. Inspection of the exhibits in the…

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Record Crowds Throng Show, Races Sydney's Easter

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 April 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: The greatest crowd congestion in Australian history—greater than that of Sydney's 150th Anniversary Celebrations—occurred in Sydney to-day…

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Stawell Winners Do Well At Bendigo Fair

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 April 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: J. Dalton and L. Streete, winners at this year's Stawell Gift meeting, scored again at the Bendigo Easter Fair…

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Sydney Royal Show, 1947

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 April 1947 · page 2

One of the many excellent working exhibits that, attracted thousands of visitors to the Vacuum Oil Company's kiosk was a Ford 8 h.p. "Anglia"…

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Children's Day at Royal Show

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 April 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Children's Day at the Royal Show to-day attracted tens of thousands of children who were specially catered for…

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Grand Parade at Royal Show

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 April 1947 · page 1

A FINE TELEPHOTO picture of the grand parade at Sydney's Royal Show, including a section of the huge crowd…

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Australian Artist's One-man Show in U.s

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 April 1947 · page 6

NEW YORK, Tuesday: An Australian artist, Wilfrid John Peisley, who came to the United States in 1945, as winner of the New South…

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Tennis Carnival at Tumut

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 10 April 1947 · page 10

The Tumut Easter tennis carnival over the last week end was a great success and so many entries were received that finality was not…

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Furniture on Display at Show

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 April 1947 · page 3

The beauty of natural wood for furniture and fittings has been well demonstrated in the Ideal Homes Exhibition at the Royal Sydney…

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Diggers Stage Successful Easter Sports Carnival 2000 People Enjoy Dancing and Cycling

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 10 April 1947 · page 1

ON EASTER MONDAY THE DIGGERS OF THE TUMBARUMBA SUB-BRANCH OF THE R.S.S.A.l.L.A STAGED A CAR. NIVAL ON THE SHOWGROUND WHICH CAN BE DESCRIBED AS THE BEST OF ITS KIND EVER HELD LOCALLY…

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Gundagai Turns It on Next Saturday Hospital Carnival To Attract Hundreds To Town Everything in Order for Big Day

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 10 April 1947 · page 8

Not since the time, when, with great jubilation, the Pioneers’ Memorial was unveiled, has a function captured the public imagination as much as next Saturday's hospital sports and carnival. The event is the outcome of request to district and town residents to…

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Matong Cwa . Autumn Fair

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 5

The fair hold annually by the Matong C.W.A., will take place m Saturday next week, 19th April. The Baby Show will be judged at 3 p.m. and…

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Shell Show

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 3

Feature artistes heard in the "1947 Shell Show," which returned to the air on March 26, after an absence of eight years, are: Walter Pym,…

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Grand Variety Show

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 6

Australia's leading screen comedian, Joe Valli, will be the star attraction at the Roxy Theatre, on Monday night next. Joe has…

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Competitor Dies at Bushman's Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 2

Mr. Ted Paxton of Meeribee Station, Binya, after entering and winning several events at last Monday's Bushmen's Carnival died…

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