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Riverina · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1949

865 stories in Riverina's papers · page 26 of 44

Sub-Group of Show Societies to Include All Autumn Shows

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 3

Representatives of Tumut, Adelong, Gundagai and Tumbarumba Show Societies met at the Batlow Literary…

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Tumut Inter-higt School Junee Football Carnival

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 3

The Tumut School sent four teams to the carnival on Saturday last to compete in the 5st 71b., 6st., 7lb., and Inter-Senior…

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Hundred Girls to Visit Junee for Sunday's Carnival

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 7

One hundred grils will he in Junee on Sunday next for a Basket Ball Carnival organised by the local Club…

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Junior Farmers' Notes the Coming Show

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 6

All Junior Farmers and their clubs are especially urged to take stock immediately of their prospects for making the coming…

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Stars of The Services" Show for Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 2

Mr. Dick Sawyer, Director of the "Stars of The ,Services" party, who is in Wagga has expressed his thanks to the…

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Y.A.H.S. Successful at the Junee Carnival Won Two Divisions and March Past

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 6

Y.A.H.S. won the 8 stone 7 Division, shared the 7.7 title with Wagga Christian Brothers H.S. and the 1st XIII won the march past…

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Schools' Carnival Today

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 5

Everything is in readiness for the Far South Rugby League Schoolboys' Carnival to be held at the Wagga Cricket Ground…

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Wagga Show Races Popular

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 8

The secretary of the Murrumbidgee Turf Club, Mr. J. H. Whiting, said last night that the club's Show meeting, on August…

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Design of Wagga District Show Exhibit Changed

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 3

The design of the Wagga District Show exhibit hat been considerably altered from previous years, Mr. O. B. Murray, organiser of the exhibit said yesterday…

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Brothers Teams Stars of Wagga R.L. Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 3

From the march of 18 teams down the streets of Wagga on Saturday morning until the final bell marked the end of the last match in the afternoon the Far South Schoolboys' Rugby League carnival was an…

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New Developments at London's Radio Show

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 3

Every type of radio receiver and all the latest refinements, many on display for the first time, will be shown at Radio…

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Adelong Show 1950 Committee And Stewards

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 2

Ground, B. Webster, F. E. Davis, H. Lithgow, T. Tonkin, A. S. Tonkin; District Exhibit, H. Tonkin; Ringmaster, C. A. W. Prowse,…

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Narrandera Show Features in This Year's Schedule

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 2

Intending exhibitors at the Narrandera show to be held on Friday and Saturday, 9th and 10th September would do well to peruse the…

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M.t.c. Show Races Next Week

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 8

Nominations closed yesterday for the Murrumbidgee Turf Club's two-day show meeting on August 26 and 27…

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Lockhart's Big Event '49 Show to Spell Success

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 2

Was it Abraham Lincoln or John Heckendorf who once remarked: "If you want success stick your neck right into the job." Possibly it was…

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U.s. Figures Show High Cost of Design Changes

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 6

The hight cost of making changes in car body design is shown by figures recently released in the United States by the Oldsmobile Company. ALTHOUGH the figures refer…

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Next Week's Annual Wagga Show Promises to Be Best in History Hotel Accommodation Already Booked Out

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 3

The 78th annual Wagga Show, which opens next Tuesday promises to be the most successful ever conducted by the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Record entries, totalling almost 5000, have been…

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Mr. Graham to Open Wagga Show

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 2

A schoolboy who exhibited a prize winning Ayreshire cow at the 1910 Wagga Show will, this year, open the show In his…

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Played Football with Broken Wrist Junee Lads Successful at Wagga Carnival

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 6

On Saturday last, four teams from the Junee Intermediate High School journeyed to Wagga to take part in the Far South…

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Horse Stalls Wanted for Show Week

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 2

Due to the large number of entries in the horse section of the Wagga Show, the association, although they have increased…

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