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Shows & fairs, 1919

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Country Tennis Double Bay Carnival Forbes Deats Attunga

Evening News · Wednesday 8 January 1919 · page 5

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Wheat for Jubilee Show. Additional Attractions

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1919 · page 6

The Royal Agricultural Society has made additions to the wheat section, of the jubilee show, and the prizes have also been increased. One of the important changes in the conditions…

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Lawn Tennis Country Carnival Tit-bits at Double Bay

Evening News · Wednesday 8 January 1919 · page 3

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Tennis Carnival. Trying Day for Country Players. Faculty of Adaptation

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1919 · page 8

Wind and rain tested tho prowess of the country players who were engaged in the annual carnival at Double Bay tennis courts yesterday. And the country men and women acquitted…

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Picture Show Taxes. Paddington in Protest. Labor Members' Proposals

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1919 · page 9

A public meeting, convened by the Mayor of Paddington (Ald. Power) last night, to protest against the taxation on 3d and 6d amusement tickets, gave Labor members opportunity…

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Lawn Tennis. Country Carnival

Evening News · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 2

Goulbum and Forbes still [?] unbeaten at the close of the 7th round of the teams matches in the Country Carnival at Double Ray yesterday. A great struggle is…

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St. Vincent's, Ashfield. a Successful Fair

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 15
Also in The Catholic Press

The fair held at St. Vincent's, Ashfield, last month in aid of the extension of the De La Salle Boys' School realised the substantial sum of £1000…

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The Moving Picture Show Wisdom While You Walk

The Sun · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 6

Items of Information on scientific and economic subjects are freely placarded by the Bolshevik organs so that "every citizen, instead of spending yearn at a…

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Ambulance Carnival

The Propeller · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 2

A carnival in aid of the funds of the St. George District Motor Ambulance will be held at Brighton-le-Sands from January 22 to…

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A Fair Deal

The Mirror · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 10

The fighting had been going on all day, and toward evening the enemy seemed to have had enough. About this time a lieutenant burst into the dugout…

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German Idea of Fair Play

The Mirror · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 5

When the German Crown Prince, visited India there were sports on the boat going out, a tug-of-war in which both British and Germans took part…

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Lawn Tennis. Country Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 8

Players in the country carnival had another hard day's work yesterday, the courts being occupied from 9.15 in the morning until nearly 7.30 p.m. The preliminary round of the country teams' competition was…

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Motor Cycle Hartley Carnival

Arrow · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 4

The motor cyclists of this State are to have a big open road race provided for them on Anniversary Day by the Lithgow Club, as usual. Hitherto the…

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Lawn Tennis. Country Week Carnival

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 3

The most exciting feature of yesterday's play in connection with the country week lawn tennis carnival, at the Double Bay courts, was the finish of the teams' match between Dubbo I. and Goulburn. Play right…

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Lawn Tennis Country Carnival Goulburn Scratched

The Sun · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 5

When the country week lawn tennis semi-finals were due to start this morning, a difference of opinion caused the withdrawal of the Goulburn team…

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Lawn Tennis Comment on Country Carnival Games

Arrow · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 2

Always one of the favorite lawn tennis gatherings of the year, the Country Carnival that began on Saturday had the advantage of being the first since the…

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The Passing Show: Russia's Value

The Land · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 8

London "Daily Mail" protests against Britain intervening in Russia. The paper contends that "Russia is not worth the sacrifice of a single British soldier's life."…

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The Passing Show Soldiers' Brides

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 6

A large party of soldiers' brides has arrived by the Zealandia, and were met by the Y.W.C.A., husbands, relatives, and friends. There were 92…

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