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Shows & fairs, 1952

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To hold flower show in April

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 December 1952 · page 2

The South Wagga Catholic Church committee will hold its first annual flower show in St. Joseph's Hall on April 11…

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£190 Profit from Last Show; Many Improvements for 1953 Exhibition

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 2 December 1952 · page 1

Lockhart Show Committee held its squaring-up meeting on Thursday afternoon when Mr. C. Horn, the treasurer, presented a financial statement indicating that a profit of just on £190 had been made from last…

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Fair Rents Court Lessor Granted Increases

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 2 December 1952 · page 2

Christina Ashton applied to the Fair Rents Court, presided over by Mr. K. W. Smith, S.M., on Friday for a determination of…

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Physical education and folk dancing displays by students Highlight of L.H.S. Fancy Fair

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 2 December 1952 · page 1

Displays of physical education and folk dancing by the girls of Leeton High School, and parallel bar gymnastics and pyramids by the High School boys, provided a fitting highlight for the Fourth Annual Fancy Fair of the High…

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Children's Carnival Apex Club Success

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 December 1952 · page 2

Last Saturday at Jubilee Park, the Cootamundra Apex Club conducted a children's carnival…

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New Dem. School machine show

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 December 1952 · page 2

Speeches at the Wagga Demonstration School annual break-up and prizegiving functions this month will be recorded on the school's new magictape recorder…

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Outstanding Exhibits at Anglican Flower Show

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 4 December 1952 · page 1

The St. Judo's Church of England annual flower show held in the Industrial Hall last Saturday was again a great…

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Scots' Church Flower Show

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 December 1952 · page 2

The above function, sponsored by the combined guilds, was most successful. At the opening, at 3 p.m.,…

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Successful Central School Fair

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 8 December 1952 · page 1

A very successful fair was held at the Gundagai Central School on Friday last. A very large crowd attended the…

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Gundagai’s 1953 Show

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 8 December 1952 · page 1

Gundagai’s 1953 Show will be held on March 4th and 5th. Mr. F. Dadd, the honorary secretary of the P. and A. Society,…

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"Carnival of Song and Dance"

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 December 1952 · page 2

If you have not booked at Mullins's Newsagency for the "Carnival of Song and Dance," to be held in the Town Hall on…

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Dog Show to Aid Spastic Centre

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 December 1952 · page 2

The Cootamundra Kennel Club win hold its first championship show on March 22, 1953…

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Lewisham carnival tomorrow night

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 December 1952 · page 2

Tomorrow night, commencing at 6 o'clock, the Lewisham Christmas Carnival will be held in the hospital grounds,…

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Travellers' Tumut Carnival Netts £3,848 Amount Distributed to Two Hospitals

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 12 December 1952 · page 1

A meeting of Hie executive of the Tumut District Hospital Travellers' Carnival Committee was held at the Commercial…

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Record crowd attends Christmas carnival

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 December 1952 · page 2

In ideal weather on Saturday night a record crowd attended the annual Lewisham Christmas carnival in the hospital grounds. The Lewisham Hospital Auxiliary, which organised the…

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District Exhibit For Gundagai’s 1953 Show

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 15 December 1952 · page 1

A mammoth District Exhibit will be staged in the pavilion at the 1953 Annual Gundagai Show to be held in March next. THE plan of the exhibit is to display in a comprehensive…

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15 Surf Lifesavers for Carnival at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1952 · page 2

A team of 15 members of the Malabar Surf Club Sydney, will participate in the Wagga Beach Lifesaving Club's carnival to be held at the Wagga Bathing Beach on Sunday, December 28…

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Big entries for Royal Show

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1952 · page 2

Aggregate entries of 2628 received for three of the 16 sections at the N.S.W. Royal Agricultural Society's 1953 Easter Show are the second highest in the Society's history, secretary…

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Ambulance Mardi Gras Carnival. on New Year's Eve

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 December 1952 · page 1

Plans for the Mardi Gras Carnival, to be conducted fay the Leeton Ambulance in Clieimsford Place on New…

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Motors and motoring notes British Motor Show Introduced Many New Models

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1952 · page 4

The 37the International Motor Exhibition at Earls Court, London, October 22 to November, will live in the memory as one of quite exceptional interest. This year being the jubilee of the industry, it would appear that the manufacturers had decided fittingly to show new ranges of cars…

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