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Shows & fairs, 1947

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London To Aid Sydney Wool Exhibition

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 3

NUMEROUS contacts have been made by the International Wool Secretariat. London, in responce to the Australian Wool…

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Heavy Seas Expected for Maroubra Surf Carnival

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 20

BIG seas are expected for tomorrow's Duke of Gloucester surf carnival to be held at Maroubra Beach. As at previous carnivals at…

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Heavy Seas Expected for Maroubra Surf Carnival

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 22

BIG seas are expected for tomorrow's Duke of Gloucester surf carnival to be held at Maroubra Beach. As at previous carnivals at…

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Heavy Seas Expected for Maroubra Surf Carnival

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 22

BIG seas are expected for tomorrow's Duke of Gloucester surf carnival to be held at Maroubra Beach. As at previous carnivals at…

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Woollen Wedding Gown For Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 3

A FEATURE of the Australian style show the Australia Wool Board's international wool exhibition to held at the…

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War Art Show by British Children

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 6

HELSINKI.--A collection of 100 drawings and watercolors made during the war by British schoolchildren whose ages ranged from four…

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Thieves Take £20 From Picture Show

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 7

KATOOMBA, Thursday. -- Thieves last night broke into the Victory Theatre, Blackheath, blew a safe, and stole £20…

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Special Dog Awards For Sydney Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 6

FOURTEEN aires and 15 dams have been nominated for the Dog Sires' and Dams' produce Sweepstakes to be conducted by…

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War Art Show by British Children

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 6

HELSINKI.--A collection of 100 drawings and watercolors made during the war by British schoolchildren whose ages ranged from four…

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Japan Strikes Show Labor’s Big Advance

Tribune · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 8

TOKIO. — Japanese labor leaders say that the trade unions here reached the level of workers In more advanced countries…

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Likely Fair for Divisions of Novice Cevantes And Nigeria Both Very Fit for Moorefield

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 21

IF Cevantes does not win the second division of tomorrow's Novice Handicap at Moorefield he isn't half as good as some people think. Nigeria is selected for the first division of the same…

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Interstate Sports Carnival Outstanding Success Melbourne Community’s Enthusiastic Welcome (By “SPORTSMAN for the “Jewish News.”)

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 7

The 14th Interstate Sports CarAval now taking place in Melbourne has proved to be the most successful ever held All functions…

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L.B.W. "Incidents" Start English Crash Edrich, Compton Show Surprise At Decisions

The Sun · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Friday.--Two Ibw decisions by Test umpire Scott surprised Edrich and Compton today and started a dramatic pre-lunch crash, during which four Englishmen went for 46 on a good wicket…

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Aboveboard, but not Always Fair

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 11

ALL that recent talk about schooners and cutters and Bermudan rigging and the ocean yacht race to Hobart, reminded me…

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Surf Carnival Has Late Start

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 10

The March Past at Maroubra carnival today was postponed until the arrival of the Duke of Gloucester. Maroubra carnival officials received word that a plane breakdown delayed the Vice-Regal party…

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Many Tenants Rush New Fair Rents Body

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 6

Scores of tenants yesterday made application to the Deputy Rent Controller (Mr. J. Morgan) to have rents of houses fixed. A Commonwealth Government…

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Bob Hope Saved a Feeble Show

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 23

"MONDAY at Eight," variety show on 2UW, recently featured a Trans-Pacific telephone conversation between…

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Edrich--compton "Both Out" No Doubt About Leg-Before Decisions "Quite Fair," Say Players

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- The Australian players scorn suggestions by English players and critics that the leg-before dismissals of Edrich and Compton yesterday were…

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Was All Excited About The Show

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1947 · page 4

NOT WHAT YOU'D CALL gentlemanly, behavior, not that Paktong worried. Not a bit. He got right up on his hind legs before the start of the Second Bexley Novice at Moorefield, created a diversion, and then ended up bringing home the bacon. Anyway, he had his bit of fun…

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Latest Totes on Show

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 20

AUTOMATIC TOTALISATORS will demonstrate its latest totalisator equipment, at "Amory," Ashfield, next Friday…

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