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Sydney · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1940

2,746 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 138

Fair Rents Act at Work Achieves Objective, Says Premier

The Sun · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 7

The Fair Rents Act was achieving its objective of protecting tenants against unnecessary increases in rent, and it also provided the…

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Tennis Country Week Carnival No Nepean Gent's Team

Nepean Times · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 1

For the first time for several years the Nepean District is not represented by a men's team in the N.S.W. Lawn Tennis Association's annual…

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Mt. Erin Convent, Wagga. Prize Day and Exhibition of Work

The Catholic Press · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 9

The Bishop of Wagga (Most Rev. F. A. Henschke, D.D.) made his first public appearance in Wagga since his appointment when he attended the annual presentation…

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Liverpool A.h. & I. Society's 1940 Show

Liverpool News · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 1
Also in The Biz

The annual show in connection with Liverpool A.H. & I. Society will be held on February 2 and 3. The Liverpool Show has always been…

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Country Lawn Tennis Carnival. Hawkesbury Going Well. Strong Pair Drops Set. Muswellbrook Women in Form

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 13

Hawkesbury men's team, favoured to win A grade of the country lawn tennis carnival, won their matches in the third and fourth rounds yesterday. W. B. Walker and J…

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Preparing for the Show Peel Stud Good Team of Shorthorns Champion Cow Included

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 6

PEEL River Land and Mineral Co., Ltd., Goonoo Goonoo, Tamworth, is preparing for exhibition at Sydney show probably the largest and best…

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Third Triangular Interstate Carnival Catholic Young People Meet in Sydney THE N.S.W. Catholic Debating Societies' Union

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 18

The intensive preparation of twelve months proved efficient, and the Third Annual Interstate Carnival staged at Sydney under the direction of the…

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LOOKING Backwards Our Catholic Life of Long Ago "There's many a memory bright and fair will tingle at a name, But leave unstirred the embers there we cannot fan to flame." —"Around the Boree Log." Notes From Our Files of 1904

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 8

Very Rev. Dean Slattery, who was parish priest of St. Joseph's, Newtown. now ably looked after by Rev. Father J. Byrne, P.P., was welcomed home from…

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Mair Defends Fair Rents Act

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 7

The Premier (Mr. Mair) yesterday defended the Fair Rents Act against criticism by Mr. Spooner, M.L.A. (U.A.P., Ryde)…

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Nth. Cronulla Surf Carnival

The Observer · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 5

The North Cronulla Surf Club held its annual carnival on Saturday, 23rd December, at which a representative body of surfers…

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Notice To Quit At Fair Rents Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 7

A woman tenant was served with a notice to quit outside the Paddington Fair Rents Court yesterday. She is Mrs. Doris Ethel Urquhart, St. James Road, Bondi…

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Country Week Tennis Carnival Real Amateur Event

Daily News · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 10

"COUNTRY WEEK tennis carnival is the only amateur sporting event staged in Australia," stated George Ryder, captain of Cessnock Rovers, at Rushcutters Bay…

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Fair Rents. Suburban Courts in Session. Great Public Interest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 10

The application of a tenant for a determination of the weekly rental of a cottage in Dover Road, Rose Bay, which was heard by Mr. Wood, S.M., at…

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Country Lawn Tennis Carnival. Exciting Teams Matches. Hawkesbury Hard Pressed. Many Players Sunburnt

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 14

The teams' matches in the country lawn tennis carnival at Rushcutter Bay are nearing finality. In the men's A grade, section 1. Cersnock find Newcastle are undefeated, and…

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Farm Finance By Rural Bank; Arrears of Interest Show Increase Effect of Adverse Prices Reflected in Report

The Land · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 5

IN its annual report for the year ended June 30, 1939, the Rural Bank of New South Wales states that during the year advances numbering 1205 and totalling £905,861 were made from the Rural Bank Department…

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Not Fair to Ron Richards

Daily News · Saturday 6 January 1940 · page 9

RON RICHARDS is annoyed at a broadcast last night by Stan Sheldon, manager of Fred…

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North Steyne Surf Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1940 · page 17

Ten events of a major character on the North Steyne club's surf carnival programme this afternoon have drawn heavy entries, and the competition should be keen…

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Australia and World's Fair Canberra

The Sun · Saturday 6 January 1940 · page 5

Australia has been invited by a New York World's Fair authority to continue its representation at the Fair during 1940…

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U.s. Wants to Keep Australia at Fair

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 January 1940 · page 5

CANBERRA, Friday.--The Commerce Department is considering an invitation from America for Australia to continue its exhibit at the New York Woldr's Fair…

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