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Southern Highlands · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1941

113 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 6 of 6

Wild West Show To-night (Friday)

The Southern Mail · Friday 7 November 1941 · page 4

Tex Morton's Wild West Rodeo and Circus will show to-night (Friday) in Loseby Park, Bowral, at 8.3. p.m. It will not be showing elsewhere in…

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St. Jude's Show Beautiful Spring Flowers

The Southern Mail · Friday 7 November 1941 · page 4

At the invitation of Miss Machardy, the writer visited her garden on Thursday morning and there saw a display of roses and other spring…

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St. Jude's Show Good Exhibition Expected

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 11 November 1941 · page 2

With the wealth of glorious blooms in local gardens it is expected that St. Jude's flower show, which will be held on Thursday afternoon and…

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Rose Show at Moss Vale Many Beautiful Blooms Exhibited

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 11 November 1941 · page 3

The annual Rose Show in aid of the funds of St. John's Church of England, Moss Vale, attracted a large crowd to Mack's Theatre on…

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St. Jude's Flower Show Report Next Issue

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 18 November 1941 · page 2

Owing to the dislocation caused by the hailstorm, we were unable to complete our report of St. Jude's Flower Show in time for this issue…

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Country show Rain Insurance

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 19 November 1941 · page 4

The rain protection scheme for gate-takings at country shows has a credit of [?]866 after a five-year period of operations. This was…

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Most Successful Flower Show of the Year Lucky St Jude's Missed Hailstorm by Just One Day

The Southern Mail · Friday 21 November 1941 · page 5

The finest display of high quality roses ret staged in this district was seen at St. Jude's Flower Show last week. In number and quality they…

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Primary School Break-up Concert and Exhibition

The Southern Mail · Friday 19 December 1941 · page 5

Bowral Primary School held its annual Breaking-up Concert and Presentation of Awards in the School of Arts, last week. The president of the…

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Let's Go to the Show

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 23 December 1941 · page 4

Elaborate arrangements are proceeding without restraint for the Grand Patriotic 1942 Show of Wollongong Show Society…

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Bowral Carnival

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 30 December 1941 · page 2

Bowral Bowls Club conducted carnivals on Boxing Day and Saturday. The carnivals were divided into two sections, the winners of the B…

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Forthcoming Carnival

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 30 December 1941 · page 2

An a to-day carnival will be had at Bowral Club on New Years Day. Skips are asked to enter the own rinks before Wednesday. Play on…

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Robertson Show Abandoned Petrol Rationing

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 30 December 1941 · page 3

At a special committee meeting of Robertson Show Society it was decided to abandon the annual show to have been held on 27th and 28th…

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Should District Show Go On? Debate at Committee Meeting

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 30 December 1941 · page 3

At last meeting of the committee of Berrima District Show Society there was some discussion as to whether it would be advisable to abandon the…

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