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Shows & fairs, 1954

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Show Society Has Healthy Assets Preparing Decks for 1954 Exhibition

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 2

A valuation made of the Show Association's assets on the local ground just recently by Mr. E. Southwell, put…

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Car Stolen From Show

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 1

At the Ganmain Show on Friday afternoon, Mr. D. Rogerson, of Coolamon, who had been assisting with the…

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Leeton Exhibitors at Wagga Show

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 1

Despite the inclement weather conditions quite a number of Leeton, folk visited the Wagga Show on Wednesday last. Noticed…

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Mr. Graham to open Show

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 2

The Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., Minister for Agriculture and Food Production, has accepted the invitation to…

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Rambler Had Fall in Show Trots

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 2

After a horse fell in a trotting event at the Wagga Showgrounds yesterday the driver held the horse on the ground until the field had raced past him…

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The End of Another Show Day

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 2

"Well, that's the end of another Wagga Show," young Brian Taylor appeared to be thinking as…

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Record Entries at Sydney Sheep Show Likely

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 1

Record entries at the 1955 Sydney annual sheep show were Indicated by shearing inspections now being completed in…

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Good Attendance at Third Day of Wagga Show

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 2

Yesterday's attendance figures at the third and last day of the Wagga Shew totalled 14,550. Over the three days a…

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Ganmain Show Best For Years Gate Takings £117

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 1

The Ganmain Show, on Friday and Saturday last, was by all accepted standards, not only a success, but a considerable advance on all the A. & P. Association’s exhibitions for many years post, in the number and quality of the entries and…

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Bus Party From Burrinjuck Dam to Be Entertained Show Week-end

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 2

Like last year officers of the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission stationed at Burrinjuck Dam, along with their…

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Yanco Experiment Farm and High School Win Awards at Wagga Show

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 6

Yanco Experiment Farm won the following, awards in the dairy cattle section of the Wagga Show: 1st prize, cow, dry, 3 years or…

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Fat lamb sales at the show

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 August 1954 · page 3

The prize-winning fat lambs at the Wagga show were very much admired for their quality and at the sales…

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Great Run by Sir Knight Won Show Handicap

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 August 1954 · page 10

A near record crowd of about 2100 for a Wagga Show meeting yesterday saw Sir Knight come from last in a strung out field at the six to easily win the Show…

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Bus to Narrandera Show

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 2

On Saturday at 1 p.m. Taylor's buses leave Leeton for Narrandera Show: leave Narrandera for return at 5.30 p.m…

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Lockhart Show Opens Today

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 2

A feature of the Lockhart Show ring events today and tomorrow will be a performing horse troupe…

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Lockhart Show Today Should Be Best Spring Show Ever Held

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 September 1954 · page 3

Lockhart A. and P. Society officials expect to enjoy the best Spring carnival show ever at Lockhart today. The first day of the two-day show went off smoothly…

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New features for 1954 Coolamon Show

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 September 1954 · page 5

Organisers of the Coolamon Show are confident that this year's exhibition will surpass all past years' efforts, said the secretary (Mr. R. G. Lynch) last…

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Car Stolen at Show Later Overturned, Man Arrested

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 1 September 1954 · page 7

A travelling showman was arrested near an overturned car not far from Beckom and later charged with stealing…

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Yass Tribute to Mr. W. FINLAY Stipendiary Magistrate “Just and Fair”

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 2 September 1954 · page 2

The esteem in which, Mr. Wm. Finlay, Stipendiary Magistrate, is held in Yass by the legal profession,…

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Leeton Show

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 3 September 1954 · page 2

Leeton's two-day Agricultural Show will take place on Friday and Saturday, October 1 and 2…

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