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Southern Highlands · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1942

31 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 2 of 2

Tail Lights Must Show

The Southern Mail · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 3

Local police are having some trouble in enforcing the traffic regulation relating to tail-lights, which must be shown whenever a car is parked at…

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Not a Fair Deal ? (To The Editor]

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 29 April 1942 · page 2

Sir—Many admirers of the tin, brass: or foreign hat clamour-for a compulsory list of beds, bedding, sheds, stables. etc to house…

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Glenquarry's Greatest Day Everyone Came to the Fair and Spent Till It Hurt Over Two Hundred and Sixty Pounds for Red Cross

The Southern Mail · Friday 8 May 1942 · page 4

Tuesday last was Market Day at Glenquarry . . . and what a day. The spirit of the pioneers, who changed the district from bushlands to productive farms, permeated the people of a new generation and the Market Day proved the most successful…

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Prisoners of War Carnival Big Day in Bowral on

The Southern Mail · Friday 22 May 1942 · page 5

Everything is set for a good day's sport at the Gymkhana and Sports in Smith Paddock, Bowral, on Saturday in aid of the Red Cross…

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Australian Verse Australia Fair

The Southern Mail · Friday 29 May 1942 · page 1

Australia fair! I love thee, The dear land of my birth; To me thou art the sweetest, The brightest spot on earth…

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Fair Play Be Hanged!

The Southern Mail · Friday 26 June 1942 · page 1

IN these days of world dictatorships, it is so easy for the meekest of us to become little hitlers in our own right…

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Baby Show

The Southern Mail · Friday 18 September 1942 · page 3

Who doesn't love to see a happy baby? And what mother doesn't think hers is the bonniest of the bonny bairns with which the earth is…

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Military Austerity and District Show Committee in Financial Fix

The Southern Mail · Friday 16 October 1942 · page 2

The Defence Department has notified Berrima District Show Society that it will pay £150 13s. for the use of the ground for military purposes…

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Military Austerity and District Show Committee in Financial Fix

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 October 1942 · page 2

The Defence Department has notified Berrima District Show Society that it will pay £150 13[?] for the use of the ground for military purposes…

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Patriotic Carnival

The Southern Mail · Friday 11 December 1942 · page 3

The announcement last Lady Wakehurst had consented to open the big Carnival at Bowral on 9th January has created keen interest throughout…

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Big Show News

The Southern Mail · Friday 18 December 1942 · page 2

Interest in Bowral's big Carnival and Gymkhana is growing daily, and help of all descriptions is flowing in to the organiser—cash donations, two…

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