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Shows & fairs, 1928

4,538 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 227

North Bondi Surf Life-saving Club's Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 14

THE FIRST HEAT OF THE SENIOR SURF BOAT RACE, WON BY NORTH CRONULLA A (LEFT) FROM MANLY B (CENTRE) AND CRONULLA A (RIGHT). NORTH CRONULLA A ALSO WON THE FINAL…

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The Moving Picture Show a Strange Story

The Sun · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 8

Homo time ago, when the Scottish delegation for the United Kingdom was mooted, the Commonwealth Government gave it its blessing and £60 for…

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Thrifty Lithgow What Bank Returns Show Lithgow

The Sun · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 5

According to a statement by the manager of the local branch of the Government Savings Bank, Lithgow residents have on deposit £436,000…

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Upper Hunter Show Exhibits May Be Record Wybong

The Sun · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 5

Much interest is being displayed in the forthcoming Upper Hunter show to be held in Muswellbrook in March wonderful season should make…

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Wouldn't Face the Dumpers Surfers Defy the Referee North Bondi Carnival

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 2

THE decision of a number of leading surf swimmers to withdraw from the rescue event and alarm reel race at the North Bondi Club's…

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M.L.A.'s Romance at Flower Show Melbourne Wedding Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 13

THE spice of romance is very pronounced in the meeting and wooing of Miss Dorothy Annette Joyce, of Gaynor Court Park, Malvern…

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Bay Liners Gould Have Blown the Emden to Pieces a Fair-skinned "Messenger From Heaven" Intrepid Explorers Were Saved by One of Nature's Freaks Second Attempt

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 9

When a Papuan tribe found a light-skinned boy wandering in the Bush they worshipped him. They had never seen his like before…

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Swimming. Girl Guides' Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 15

The Rose Bay Baths presented an animated appearance yesterday, when Girl Guides from Double Bay, Rose Bay. Vaucluse, Aseham School, and the Fourth Darlinghurst Judeans held their swimming…

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St. Ives Show

The Sun · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 3

The programme for the St. Ives show, to be held on Friday and Saturday next, includes a motor cycle race, and a wood chop while £78 in…

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Lidcombe's Anniversary Day Show

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 11

Entries for the annual show and sports meeting of the Lidcombe Agricultural Society, to be held on Anniversary Day, close with the secretary…

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Girl Guide Swimmers---eastern Suburbs Carnival

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 32

A NEAT ENTRY which won the junior diving event at the Girl Guides' carnival at Rose Bay Baths yesterday for Joan…

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Anderson Will Appear Tennis Exhibition at Mosman

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 30

J. O. Anderson is to play in exhibition matches for the Mosman Rowing Club, at Lucas's Courts, Avenue Road, Mosman, on…

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Lawn Tennis. Country Carnival. Knock-out Round

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 15

The postponed and unfinished matches in the teams competition of the Country Carnival and the two concluding rounds of the women's teams' competition were contested…

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"Test in Courts" Centennial Park Site 1931 Exhibition

The Sun · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 15

"The people's rights will, be, protected, even to the case being tested in the courts," declared Alderman Purcell at Paddington Council last night,…

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New Ford Car at the Motor Industries Exhibition, London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 14

THE TWO-SEATER PLEASURE MODEL PRICED AT £145…

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Army of Cars Big Motor Show

The Sun · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 12

All of us are interested in cars in this motor age. We either own one or hope to do so. A vast army of cars will be…

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Call Them "Used Cars" Coming Motor Show

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 6

The motor trade has decided to eliminate the word "second-hand" from its dictionary, as they consider that a car which has been used for a…

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The Moving Picture Show The Emu Again

The Sun · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 12

Peter was interested to receive confirmation of the habits of emus from the country, whore a pet emu swallowed a watch valued at £7 10s which…

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Miss Dora Meeson to Show Here London. December 8

The Sun · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 21

AMONG interesting art exhibition's shortly to be held in Melbourne and Sydney, will be that of Miss Dora Meeson, R.O.I. (Mrs. George J. Coates)…

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Victorian Polo Carnival

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Lord Somers had no success with the team which he entered for the Somers' Junior Cup -- a trophy donated by…

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