SWIMMING Marshall Wins Again Tomorrow Night's Cootamundra Carnival
John Marshall, the swimming "discovery" of the season, easily won the Australian 1500 metres title at the Australian Championships at Adelaide…
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Tumut Swimming Carnival All Arrangements Finalised For Sunday Swimmers From All E.R.A.S.A. to Compete Inter-town Relay Challenge Race
The committee of the Tumut Swimming Club met and finalised all the arrangements for their annual swimtnnig carnival…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tennis Exhibition Match
The following players, Leon New man Len Foley Harold Ethe[?]ngton, Mac. McBurney Frank Devlin George Goodsall, Jim Sullivan and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Swimming Tumut Swimming Carnival 220 Yards To Noel Ryan Marie Cruise Takes Another Championship
The Tumut club was unfortunate in striking such a wet day for their carnival yesterday, and doubly unfortunate that they missed their rain…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Judges for Royal Show
The names of judges in the horse, cattle, sheep dog trials, sheaftossing, goat, fat and pig sections at the Royal Easter show were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tumut Swimming Carnival Rain Spoils Day's Outing
Many people who attended the Tumut Swimming Carnival on Sunday were drenched to the skin when heavy lain began to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tennis Exhibition Four Sydney Players Here Wednesday, Feb. 19
BY the end of this week the Leeton Tennis Club will have finished the work of lighting up one of the hard courts in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sunspots May Cause Aurora Show To-night
SYDNEY, Monday: Freak size sunspots were scattered about the surface of the sun and the Aurora Australia may…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tumbarumba Show Good Prospects for Record Exhibition
With less than four weeks to go, the Tumbarumba P .A.& H. Society's Show is drawing very close and all members of the committee are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Average Male Earnings Show Slight Drop
CANBERRA, Wednesday: The average weekly earnings of Australian male workers had dropped gradually from the peak figure of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wagga Show in September; Mr. A. H. Smith New President
Mr. A. H. Smith was last night effected president of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association. The Wagga show is to be held on September…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Next Week’s Outstanding Cattle Exhibition at Gundagai
Twelve registered st[?]ds will be exhibiting at next week’s Gundagai show. This is [?] even greater number than last years outstanding exhibition. Outside the metropolitan area there is nothing that will come…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep to Be Judged on First Day of Show
Intending sheep exhibitors at next week’s Gundagai Show are reminded that sheep will be judged on the first day of the Show…
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Tumut Intermediate, High School will conduct a swimming carnival next Wednesday. Competition will be on the House system and successfully…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murrumburrah Show Society
AT the opening of the Annual meeting of the Murrumburrah P. A. & I. Society, members stood for a short while in silence in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tennis Exhibition in Cootamundra Last Night
Last night Cootamundra was treated to a display of tennis of such a high standard that hundreds of people remained standing for three hours and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Judging of Exhibition
With the exception of cattle, all exhibits will be judged on the first day of the Show, next Tuesday. Some of the outstanding judges in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The “Independent’s” Special Show Preview — Next Week’s Gundagai Show The Outstanding Cattle Show In Inland New South Wales
The imposing array of beef aristocrats after last year’s Grand Parade. This surpassed at next week’s exhibition…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Honors Will Again Go To Gundagai All Existing Records to Be Smashed at Annual Exhibition
NEXT TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY GUNDAGAI IS -ON DISPLAY. THE DISTRICT WILL TELL THE STATE OF ITS GREAT AND PROVED PRODUCING CAPACITY. THE ANNUAL SHOW WILL REACH SUCH COLOSSAL PROPORTIONS, THAT IT WILL COMPLETELY DWARF EXHIBITION OF FORMER YEARS. ENTRIES RECEIVED HAVE SHATTERED ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bennett's Form at Leeton Exhibition Game
LEETON, Thursday: Nearly 300 people saw Bob McCarthy and Fred Bennett give a fine exhibition of Tennis on Leeton Tennis Club's…
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