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Shows & fairs, 1939

3,516 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 176

Veteran Trainer and "The Referee" Photographer Ajax No Punch and Judy Show Posed For It Weight-For-Age Events Are At Mercy Of Champion

Referee · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 5

VETERAN TRAINER FRANK MUSGRAVE LOSES HIS IMPERTURBABILITY WHEN AJAX IS THE CENTRE OF ATTRACTION. "DO YOU THINK I'M PUNCH AND AJAX IS…

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Police Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 16

The Police carnival will be held at the Showground on February 25. For several weeks numbers of spectacular displays have been carefully rehearsed. The police will be assisted by…

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Farm Horses and Dairy Cattle on Show at Berry's 53rd Exhibition

The Land · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 9

The best line-up in the farm horse section at the 53rd annual Berry Show was seen in this class, for draught mares. Mr. A F. Hodgkinson, of Nowra, won first and second prizes with his entries (nearest the camera), and the winner was also champion mare. This Australian Illawarra Shorthorn cow, "Gem 77th," exhibited…

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Show Secretary Retires

The Land · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 10

After 25 years of almost continuous service as secretary of the Northern Agricultural Association, Singleton, Mr. J. T. McMahon has…

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Steel Park L.s. Carnival

Daily News · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 13

Sixth annual carnival of the Steel Park Life having Club will be held on Saturday. A team from the Police Club has…

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Show Abandoned. Muswellbrook

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 7

At a special meeting of the committee of the Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association, it was decided to abandon the Muswellbrook 1939 show because of the…

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Cronulla Surf L.S. CLUB. Wollongong Carnival

The St George Call · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 6

Boat crews from the Cronulla Club attended the annual surf carnival of the Illawarra Branch held on Saturday last at the Wollongong Beach. The…

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Strong Classes of Dairy Cattle at Berry Show

The Land · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 19

COMPETITION was good in all dairy cattle sections at the 53rd annual Berry Show with the exception of Jerseys, which were not so…

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Much to Show Tourists. Australia's Charms. Lord Gowrie's Praise

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 10

Australia's opportunities for developing tourist traffic were emphasised by the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, when speaking at a civic reception in…

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Around the Northern Beef Cattle Studs Turanville's Even Show Team—Good Herefords from Bective—Dry Times at Kanoona—Colly Creek Contingent—Attractive Timor Team — Maeranie Bull for Novice

The Land · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 18

YOUTH and evenness will be features of the Royal Show team being sent down from Turanville Beef Shorthorn Stud, Scone. The team will…

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The Beehive Write on one side of the paper only. Letters should show names, addresses, and pen-names of each Bee, and state whether Young or Associate Members. The Beehive is an association of "Land" readers for social entertainment and community service. The children up to sixteen years of age are in one class, and all over sixteen are in another, and are called Associates. The Hive is the foe of country loneliness; it pives country children and their elders opportunities for self expression and opens avenues of social usefulness. Life membership badges are 6d, post free. The Queen's Letter to the Bees

The Land · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 17

My Dear Buzzers, Mary new members are puzzled at references to Our Cot, and, for their information, I should like to tell again the story of "The Land" Beehive Cot. Early in 1933 it was thought that the Bees, as a body, could do something to…

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Radio Exhibition. Displays During Royal Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1939 · page 6

The Sydney Electrical and Radio Exhibition will be held this year as part of the Royal Agricultural Society's Easter Show between April 1 and 12…

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Harbour Bridge Pylon Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1939 · page 6

The exhibition at the south-eastern pylon of the Harbour Bridge is open daily from 10 a.m. [?] 5.30 p.m. The [?] of the [?]ant electr[?]lly open[?] enables any seen[?] within its…

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New Show For Liberty

Daily News · Saturday 11 February 1939 · page 7

Liberty has a now support program this week for its main film. The Great Waltz, starring Luise Rainer…

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Canterbury Flying Bonheur de Pere Expected To Show Way Home

Daily News · Saturday 11 February 1939 · page 10

CONSIDERED to have regained her best form, Bonheur de Pere is expected to show the way home in the Flying Handicap at Canterbury this afternoon…

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Collapsed at Show

The Sun · Sunday 12 February 1939 · page 2

Bertram Matthew Cox, 54, of Nowra, collapsed at Shoalhaven Show yesterday, afternoon, and died later, in Berry Hospital…

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Bronte's Success Beats Stockton In March Past At Newcastle Surf Carnival NEWCASTLE

The Sun · Sunday 12 February 1939 · page 23

Bronte won the grand parade and march past at Newcastle surf carnival to- day by two points, inflicting on…

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Steel Park Life-saving Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 6

The New South Wales police life saving team won the march past at the annual carnival of the Steel Park River Patrol at Undercliffe an Saturday with Ramsgate club second F. Falson, a…

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"Straight Place and Show."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 3

The Ritz Brothers have not such strong personalities as their rivals, the brothers Marx. But they remedy this deficiency by the resourcefulness, the speed, and the abandon…

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£7,500,000 Art Show

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sunday.--Five hundred pictures, valued at £7,500,000, will be on exhibition at the New York World's Fair. It will be the most important collection…

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