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Southern Highlands · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1940

124 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 7

Bowral Horse Show. Friday and

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 2 January 1940 · page 3

Bowral Horse Show Society will hold its annual show on Friday and Saturday. There will be day and night sessions and entries promise…

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Dapto Show. Ambitious Program of Big Prizes

The Southern Mail · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 2

With the most ambitious program on record absorbing £800 in prize money, Dapto A. and H. Society will, on Friday and Saturday, January 12…

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Bowls Carnival at Bowral. One of the Best on Record

The Southern Mail · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 4

Bowral Bowls Club held one of the most successful carnivals in its history on Saturday and Monday. Competitions for pain and fonrs were…

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Bowral Horse Show Two Days and Two Nights

The Southern Mail · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 3

The annual Bowral Horse Show will open this (Friday) morning and will conclude on Saturday night at 10 o'clock. There will be two-day…

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Bowral Horse Show Spoiled by Rain. Show was the Best yet Staged, but Rain Kept Folk Away

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 9 January 1940 · page 3

The fourteenth annual show of the Bowral Horse Show Society was held on Friday and Saturday and showed promise of being the most successful…

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Trotting Events at the Horse Show. Spectacular Falls

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 9 January 1940 · page 2

The trotting events were under the control of Mr. Wainwright, stipendiary steward from the New South Wales Trotting Club. Two…

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Next Year's Show Date

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 January 1940 · page 3

Depto : January 12 and 13. Albion Park : January 19 and 20, Wollongong : Jan. 25, 26, and 27. Berry : February 2 and 3. Moruya : February 7 ami 8…

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Bowral Horse Show. The Editor, The Mail

The Southern Mail · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 2

Sir,—Each year the question is asked. "Why is the attendance at Bowral Horse Show so poor?" Please per-mit me to throw a little light on the…

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Are Locals Overlooked at Horse Show? Secretary Replies to Captious Critic

The Southern Mail · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 2

A correspondent of The Mail avers that outsiders find favor at Bowral Horse Show to the exclusion of local horse-owners and pleads for more consideration for local horses. Upon referring the complaint to the Secretary of the Horse…

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Transport Problems for Show Cattle

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 January 1940 · page 4

The United Stud Beef Cattle Breeders' Association of Australia has stated that its Council was fully in accord with…

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Show Judges Departmental Officers Not Available

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Reid) has informed Mr. J. L. Shute, general secretary of the Primary Producers Union, that be cannot…

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Bowral Show. The Editor, The Mail

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 3

Sir,—Allow me to state a few facts so that my letter of the 12th inst. will not appear so absurd as the Horse Show Secretary thinks. Of eight…

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Greyhound Club and Show Committee. Agreement Not Kept

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 2

Under its agreement with the Berrima District Show Society the Moss Vale Greyhound Club is required to pay one half of its net profit to…

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Agreement Not Kept Greyhound Club and Show Committee

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 24 January 1940 · page 2

Under its agreement with the Berrima District Show Society the Moss Vale Greyhound Club is required to pay one half of its net…

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Night Carnival. Keen Competition on Bowral Green

The Southern Mail · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 3

A bowls carnival was held on Bowral green on Monday night. Members of the Moss Vale and Bowral Clubs took part and the fours…

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Big Dahlia Show. District Horticultural Society

The Southern Mail · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 4

The District Horticultural Society is sparing no effort to make its Autumn Flower Show next month worthy of the district. Special efforts…

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What Our Editor Thinks "The one commodity of which there can be [?]over-production is Truth,"—Walter Murdoch "The Liberty of the Press is everybody's Liberty."—J.A.Spender. The "Fair Rents" Fraud

The Southern Mail · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 1

FORCED by the growing strength of public indignation against the rapacity of, many landlords, the State…

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Bowral Horse Show

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 3

Sir,—It is a great blow to my self-satisfaction to see that "Localite" has not pursued the course I suggested and still continues to pour forth…

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Prize-winners at Bowral Show. The Editor, The Mail

The Southern Mail · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 2

Sir,-In "Localite's " letter of the 28rd January be states that "local ponies, many of them exhibited and unplaced at Bowral Show, were…

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What Others Think [The opinions of correspondents are not necessarily those of the Editor.] Bowral Horse Show. The Editor, The Mail

The Southern Mail · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 2

Sir,—With reference to "Localite's" second letter of the 23rd inst, printed in your paper, I feel that, late as it is, I must point out to him…

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