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Shows & fairs, 1934

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The Moving Picture Show a Great Left-Hander

The Sun · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 8

To the strains of "Some Day I'll Find You," the selectors cudgelled their brains over the problem of left-hand bowler. Weary Willie, waxing mad with…

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Ring siders at Last Week's Big Show at Kiama

The Land · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 8

DAIRY STOCK ENTHUSIASTS photographed at Kiama Show. From left: Messrs. Ken. Frazer, the wellknown stud stock salesman; W. N. Rees, South Coast district stock inspector; J. R. Knapp, of Swanlea A.L.S. stud, Bolong; and A. E. Sweaney, of distant Inverell, who, among other activities, is a prominent breeder of A.I.S. cattle…

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Royal Easter Show Junior Farmers Section To Be Included

The Land · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 11

At the monthly meeting of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society it was decided to include a Junior Farmers'…

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Kiama's Great Dairy Cattle Show, Through a "Land" Camera

The Land · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 9

APANORAMIC VIEW of the Grand Parade at Kiama's successful dairy cattle Show last week. This picture was specially arranged for "The Land," and conveys an idea o. the splendid display or dairy stock which is always a feature or the annual Kiama exhibition. The Showground is picturesquely situated right on the coast, and the Pacific Ocean forms the left background of this illustration. ANOTHER VIEW of the Grand Parade, showing some of the prize-winning cattle…

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A Day at Kiama's Great Show of Dailry Cattle

The Land · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 8

THE Kiama Show, which was held last week under favorable weather conditions, is always a popular attraction…

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Busy Time for Viv McGRATH Davis Cup Star In Exhibition Series Manly Games

The Labor Daily · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 4

VIVIAN McGRATH has agreed to play in a series of exhibition matches with other leading tennis player before he…

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Figures Show Sham of Ottawa Past Year's Return of Brit. Trade Foreign Imports Soar

The Labor Daily · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 6

How Australian primary producers have been affected by the Ottawa Agreement--which binds them while foreign produce is dumped into Britain--is revealed in the British trade returns for 1933. DURING 1933, fourteen foreign…

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City Man's Extraordinary Criticism of Marketing Plans Middle-man Show Their Hand. Fear Producer-Control Wheat Merchants Stfike First Blow Against Organisation

The Land · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 8

REALISING that the Federal plans for giving to all primary industries facilities for co-operative marketing…

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A Section for the Poultry Farmer Wyandotte Clube's Good Show Of Young Birds Country Exhibitors' Were Successful At Parramatta; Specialist Fixture By Our Poultry Corresponent

The Land · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 21

THE Wyandotte Club held its annual Young Bird Show on Anniversary Day, rt Parramatta. The fact that entries were, a record, despite the opposing attraction of the Granville Agricultural Show on the same day,…

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Agricultural Society

Nepean Times · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 4

About 25 committeemen attended the monthly meeting of the Nepean District A.H. and I. Society at the Masonic Hall on Wednesday evening,…

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BULLROARERS Demonstrations Given At Exhibition

The Sun · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 4

One of the most ingenious of native implements is the bullroarer. It is found in all parts of the world and is used in various ways for…

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Rain Interrupts Show Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 2

On account of the rain, which has fallen without intermission since last night the shows committee was compeleld to abandon to-day's events, but…

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Fair Thing Beaten Flying Queen Aced She'll Do Better

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 6

FLYING QUEEN was a pretty fair thing beaten in the second division of Wednesday's Flying…

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The Moving Picture Show Shaw In Danger?

The Sun · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 4

Oxford is annoyed with our old friend Bernard Shaw for criticising its English, talks about his "colossal ignorance of university life," and…

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Pony People Going Through Purgatory Can'teat Regularly A.J.C. Should See They Get Fair Spin

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 1

THERE'S "war-hawk" in the camps of legitimate ex-pony owners and trainers. The recent heat wave has nothing on the temperature that those men have generated over the treatment that is being handed out to them…

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Tramway Swimming Carnival

Truth · Sunday 4 February 1934 · page 7

TO-MORROW morning. Tramway are staging a big carnival at Rushcutter Bay Baths. The tit-bit of the carnival is a 50 yards invitation…

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"Swore Falsely To Cover Up Her Tracks!"—S.M. Nurse-Wife's Intriguing Allegations Fail Caught on Allotment After Exhibition Dance

Truth · Sunday 4 February 1934 · page 15

INTRIGUING allegations by a wife that her husband and two companions had assaulted her in order to obtain portion of her garments as evidence for a divorce suit, and a story by the husband that he had found his spouse…

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Negro Dancer's £700 a Week to Show London Real Hot Jazz Famous "Banana Dance' Left England Cold

Truth · Sunday 4 February 1934 · page 14

JOSEPHINE BAKER, the colored star who put the heat into hot jazz and whose exotic dances have caused a sensation in blase Paris and riots in other European cities, is looking for new worlds to conquer, and her eyes may wander to Australia…

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Carnival Arrangements

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 15

A meeting of the nominees for the Australian carnival at Adelaide has been called for Friday. February 9, at 11.30 a.m., to appoint a manager and decide on other arrangements for the…

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Anthropological Society's Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 6

The exhibition of native arts and crafts being held by the Anthropological Society of New South Wales at 60 Elizabeth-street has been extended until Saturday. This evening…

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