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Shows & fairs, 1954

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Local and General Royal Easter Show

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 2

District residents will learn with interest that Mr. W. ("Wai.) McKenzie, local manager of the Commonwealth Trading Bank of…

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Display of Floral Art at Show

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 6

Cliamax of the floral exhibits at this year's Sydney Royal Show will come on Easter Monday, when the…

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Royal Easter Show

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 2

It's Royal Easter Show time again! Tomorrow, April 9, is the opening day for what promises to be the greatest show on record…

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Big 'Rules Carnival on Again

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 8

The annual Yerorn: Creek Annual Rules knockout carnival will be held on June 14 this year. This was decided at the annual meeting of the carnival committee in the public hall recently…

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Local Junior Farmer to Visit Royal Show

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 2

The Bank of New South Wales is again assisting with the comprehensive programme organised for Junior farmers attending the…

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Rural Properties Are Getting Bigger Statistics Show An Alarming Trend

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 10

The annual summary of rural land use and crop statistics, issued by the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, reveals some interesting' trends. A “rural holding” in…

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Scouts’ Athletic Carnival

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 1

Twelve Scouts from Coolamon competed in the Scouts’ Athletic Carnival held at Junes last…

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Local Junior Farmer To Visit Royal Show

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 1

The Bank of New South Wales is again assisting with the comprehensive programme organised for junior farmers attending the…

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Leeton Junior Farmer to Visit Royal Show

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 6

The Bank of New South Wales is again assisting with the comprehensive programme organised for…

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Show Business Being the Weekly Doings of the Revue Club

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 3

SEWING CIRCLE:--For the last few nights practice has resembled a women's sewing circle. All the girls are at it and last…

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Carnival in Wagga today

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1954 · page 2

Although very poor crowds attended the first two nights of the Monster Carnival in the Town Hall Gardens, it is believed that the carnival will be very…

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Bank at Show

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1954 · page 3

As a service to its country clients, the Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia is attaching two of its…

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Lockhart show arrangements

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1954 · page 4

LOCKHART, Friday: Lockhart Agricultural and Pastoral Society decided last night to organise a pastures…

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Carnival to Be Extended

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 2

The Old Age and Invalid Pensioner's Association Carnival will run for an additional four nights in the Town Hall Gardens…

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Beef cattle show

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sunday: The president of the Poll Shorthorn Society of Australia (Mr. H. Mackinnon) today…

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Leeton Show Society's Record Profit

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 1

Leeton Agricultural Society last year mode a profit of £627—an all-time high in the Society's 23 years…

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£145 paid for show champion steer

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: The champion fat st[?] of the Royal Eater show brought top price of £145 at the fat cattle sales yesterday. The steer, a Hereford, was bought by Calwell…

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Royal Show Bull Brings Big Price

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 1

SYDNEy, Monday—A Shorthorn bull brought 2000 guineas at the opening of the stud beef cattle sales at the Royal Show…

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Polocrosse Game Won by Wagga Junee Riders Show Further Improvement

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 5

Although the score finished in Wagga's favour, the local riders were not disgraced, but showed that they are still…

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Gundagai Played Big Part in Sydney Show Triumph Southern Districts Take Exhibit Award

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 1

Gundagai played a major part in the triumph of the Southern Districts Exhibit at the Sydney Royal Show, when this area defeated Western Districts in the Commonwealth Districts Exhibit…

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