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Shows & fairs, 1935

4,670 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 234

The Moving Picture Show Intelligent Pygmies

The Sun · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 8

A game warden of Uganda, Captain Pitman, says the pygmies of the Congo live on friendly terms with the gorillas, but other natives fear…

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Royal Easter Show Prize Schedule: Additions to List

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 3

The schedule for the 1935 Royal Easter Show, which is to be held from 15th to 24th April next, has now been published…

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Rodeo Listed for To-night Redfern Oval Show

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 4

Included among the sporting events "washed out" by Saturday's rain was the rodeo and wild west exhibition, the city, premiere of which…

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British Industries Fair. Buyers from Foreign Countries. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Feb. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 10

The British Industries Fair will open in London on February 18, and buyers are now on their way to it from all parts of the world They are coming from 70 countries, and…

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Storm Washes Out Castle Hill Show Trotting Track and Ring Flooded Awards Made in Pavilion Sections Sporting Programme Postponed Until March 16 — Association Receives Insurance—Big Entries in Poultry Section—Classes Up To Standard—Fruit and Flowers Make Attractive Display—Keen All-round Competition

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 1

SATURDAY'S cyclonic storm washed out Castle Hill Show. Arrangements were…

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Canterbury Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 13

The carnival fixed to take place at the Canterbory Velodrome to-morrow night, in [?]d of the [?] Morri[?] fund, has been postponed until a date to be fixed…

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Police Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 3

The police carnival, which is to be held at the Show Ground on February 28, is expected to attract a larger attendance than any previous police display. The entries closed…

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Industries Fair. British Sales Centre. Fourteen-acre Exhibition. (From Our Special Correspondent.) (By Air Mall.) LONDON, Jan. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 8

The British Industries Fair—the greatest sales centre of Empire goods ever known—will open at Olvmpia and the White City, London, on February 18: This year for the first time,…

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Police Carnival Prospects Are Bright

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 10

Organisation for the Police Carnival at the Show Ground on Saturday, February 23, is going along satisfactorily, and those in charge of the…

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Royal Show Record Entries

The Sun · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 13

This year's Royal Show, to open in two months, gives promise of being the biggest, brightest and best Easter Carnival ever staged by the Royal…

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A Man of Method, Fair to the Last

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 7

WHEN Albert Edward Schafer, of Grafton, made his will he had among his possessions half a kerosene tin of whitewash…

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Lismore Poultry Show. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 10

Awards at the Lismore Poultry Club's young birds show on Saturday were:— Grand champion bird of show and champion utility male: D. Serone (White Leghorn cockere[?]…

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The Moving Picture Show Simplified Racing

The Sun · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 10

Total Wreck and Darlene were the only starters in a race at Albany (W.A.), and so even was the handicapping that they ran a dead-heat!…

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General Insurance Reviewed. Rates Show a Downward Tendency

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 8

Much of interest is revealed by a review of the 1934 operations in the field of general insurance, that is, relating to all classes excepting life. Information obtained from many of the leading…

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Aquarium Exhibition

The World's News · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 7

THE aquarium exhibition, which opened on the 6th inst., is in full swing on the 12th floor, "Sun"-"Telegraph" Building, 60-66 Elizabeth Street, Sydney…

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Paris Fair. Of International Importance

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 5

With a very vapid growth since, its inception in 1904, the Paris International Trade Fair is to-day one of the most important events…

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Swimming. North Sydney Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 17

Noel Ryan will attempt to tower Arne Borg's Australian record for 1000 yards at the North Sydney amateur club's carnival at Lavender Bay on Saturday night. Borg's time was 11m 55 2-5s…

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Exhibition of Art Students' Work

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 5

The annual exhibition of the work of the students of the Art Department of the Sydney Technical College will be officially opened by the Hon. D. H. Drummond, M.L.A., Minister…

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Athletics. Club Carnival. T. E. Hampson's Fine Sprint

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 17

Although rain early in the evening made the track heavy at Hurstville Oval last night, when the St. George Club held its first annual athletic and cycling carnival, T. E. Hampson showed…

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Swimming Missed Carnival, But Council Wants Fees Paid

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 3

RESENTMENT of the action of the N.S.W. Swimming Association in transferring the inter-State carnival on February 26 from Manly…

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