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Shows & fairs, 1930

4,421 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 222

Wombarra Show

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 8

Wambarra and District Horticultural Society has just been formed, and is marking rapid progress. It is the first society of it is kind here, and everything is…

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Surf Life-saving. Collaroy Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 9

The result 0f the surf life-saving leasue event at the Collaroy carnival on Boxing Day was:— Noith Steyne (G.Soutar,J.[?]unnett C.BOulton, D Biaddock C. Walton, and A. Owen), 64,83 points,…

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Surling Carnival List Queenscliff Next Among the Clubs

Evening News · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 2

QUEENSCLIFF, the young [?] club [?] in the [?] and judging [?]…

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Fashion Prefers Blondes Return of Long Hair Demands Fair Mannequins

The World's News · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 15

DRESS designers, owing to the return to fashion of longer hair, now insist that their mannequins must be blondes…

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The Moving Picture Show More Good Intentions

The Sun · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 8

Peter has collected a wheelbarrow load of material for the maintenance of a certain well-known pavement. I have resolved, for 1930, to effect…

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The Scotsmen's Day Highland Gathering at Show Ground

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 19

To the skirl o' the pipes the 62nd annual Highland gathering will open at 9.45 this morning at the Show Ground, Moore Park…

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Queensland in Sport Great Sailing Carnival : Day's Wonderful Jumping : Beats Record Three Times

Referee · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 13

Grade cricket in Brisbane was suspended on Saturday. During Christmas week a Brisbane team visited Toowoomba and played a…

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Cycling Carnival Young

The Sun · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 2

The Young Cycle Club held a successful carnival on New Year's Day. Riders came from Sydney Lithgow, Orange, Cootamundra, Temora, and…

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Notes. New York Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 4

The 30th annual Automobile Show will be held at the Grand Central Palace, New York, from January 4 to January 11, 1930. Fortysix makers of cars will show 240 models,…

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Gundaroo Wants a Show

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 16

GOULBURN.--A proposal is afoot to hold, a show in the Gundaroo Park in April. It is many years since a show was held in Gundaroo, and there…

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In Dark Carnival Spoiled Wires Broken

The Sun · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 9

Allegations that a man attempted to prevent the Dee Why Surf Club from holding its carnival last night by tearing down the electric light wires and…

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Thrilling Surf Boat Race at Curl Curl's Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 12

MANLY "A" CREW WINNING THE FIRST HEAT OF THE SENIOR RACE IN FINE STYLE…

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The Moving Picture Show a Robber Nation

The Sun · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 12

Peter read an article in a morning paper which rather exposes the Scotch. For many years this deceitful people has pretended that the bagpipes were…

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Of Social Interest Fair Punters Donned Their Flimsiest Attire For After All the Weather Man Proved a Kind Friend

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 19

As on Boxing Day, most of our best-known women racegoers who set the pace in fashion were absent from Randwick yesterday. Country and seaside, it seems, are stronger attractions than even the ring…

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Bad Luck Rode With Jim Munro Failed on Last Mounts But He'll Show Them in Germany His Farewell

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 5

In the last seven years Jimmy Munro has ridden 1773 mounts in Australia for 332 wins. But yesterday,…

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At Surf Carnival

The Sun · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 10

Arrangements have been made for Dr. Otto Peitzer and Leo Lermond to visit Manly to-morrow, for the second annual surf carnival of the…

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Coursing Gossip New Year Carnival

Arrow · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 14

Nominations, which closed on Wednesday for the New Year coursing carnival to be held at Harold Park on Tuesday, January 7, and Saturday, January 11…

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Cronulla Surf Carnival. List of Awards

The Propeller · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 1

Ideal weather conditions prevailed at the annual carnival of the Cronulla Surf Life-saving Club which was held last Saturday afternoon. A large crowd…

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Big Trade Show London

Evening News · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 1

MORE than 1800 British manufacturers will be represented at the British Industries Fair, which opens simultaneously in the middle of February in…

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The Moving Picture Show Instinctive Reactions

The Sun · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 8

"When a small boy doesn't wash himself, why make a fuss? It is instinctive for a child not to wash, and it is not the business of…

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