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Shows & fairs, 1955

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Hamburg Show by Israel Artist

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 5

Hamburg.—The Municipal Art Gallery here has been showing 50 paintings by Israeli artist Aryeh Goral. A…

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N.E. Wool Impresses Judges At Armidale Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 9

ARMIDALE: Bn size and quality the Wool Show at the Armidale and Mew England Show last week reflected the claim of New England to consideration as the finest woolgrowing district in Australia, and challenged any…

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Nepean Show Notes the Ambulance

Nepean Times · Thursday 10 March 1955 · page 3

Opportunity was taken to raise funds on the ground for Central Ambulance by means of chocolate wheel end envelopes…

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N.S.W. Govt. Education Exhibition

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 11 March 1955 · page 7

The Government Department of Education in New South Wales has agreed to arrange at the joint request…

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Tumbarumba Show Exhibits Praised

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1955 · page 5

WAGGA.— The quality of the exhibits at the Tumbarumba show this week was remarkably high but entries were light in the wool, fat lamb, fat cattle and vegetable…

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Dog Parade At Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1955 · page 27

A parade of dogs will be a feature of the Royal Easter Show to be held from April 1…

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200 Attend J.F. Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1955 · page 27

About 200 people attended Kangaloon Junior Farmer show recently…

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Ryeland Trophy For Sheep Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1955 · page 8

A trophy for the grand champion Ryeland ram will be awarded at the Sydney…

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New Pavilion Was Feature Of Delgety Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1955 · page 12

COOMA: Erected at a cost of £800, with voluntary labor and help from the Snowy River Shire, the pavilion at the Dalgety Showground was used for the first time at the Dalgety Show on March 2…

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John Deere Tractor Range For Sydney Royal Easter Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1955 · page 34

Several John Deere tractors will be shown at the Royal Easter Show, Sydney, next month, together with a two cylinder Diesel engine model R. Other models to be…

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News From England Australian Judges For England's 1955 Royal Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1955 · page 18

Mr. J. R. Allen, of South Boorook, Mortlake, Victoria, and Mr. G. C. L. Judge, of Banoole, Glencoe, N.S.W., will judge the Hereford and Devon cattle respectively at the 1955 Royal Show in England…

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Variety Show

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 16 March 1955 · page 10

Murray Bros.' Variety Show, presented every Friday in the Parramatta City [?] Hall, and broadcast from [?]…

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Famous Trotters for Carnival

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 16 March 1955 · page 2

Fairfield Agricultural & Horticultural Society has planned to bring some of the State's most famous…

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Blake art show needs new name

Tribune · Wednesday 16 March 1955 · page 8

THE Blake Prize for Religious Art is named after a great humanist, William Blake, who believed that religion must be…

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Motors—services Crowds Thronged £200,000 Motor Display at Show

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 16 March 1955 · page 16

A £200,000 display of new cars at Parramatta Show caused headaches to showgoers with a good bank balance to spend on latest 1955 models. There was everything from a two-pedal automatic gear-changing Dodge to the latest model motor scooter…

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Fine Display at Flower Show Emu Plains Auxiliary to N.D.H.

Nepean Times · Thursday 17 March 1955 · page 1

Despite the recent weeks of wet weather, which all members agreed had ruined our chance of keeping up our high standard of…

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Weather Spoils Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1955 · page 14

TAREE.— Bad weather prevented the organisers of the Hannam Vale Show from…

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Munduney Not Sending To Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1955 · page 8

Munduney Shorthorn and Hereford stud, Spalding, South Australia, has changed…

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Record Pig Entries At Tumut Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1955 · page 42

WAGGA: Entries in the pig section of the Tumut Show last week were a record. Additional pens had to be provided. A total of 133 exhibits…

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Bombala Show Success: Record Gate Takings

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1955 · page 9

Gate takings at the Bombala show last week reached a total of more than £320 and were an all time record, Mr. V. A. L. Caldwell, the show president, said. One of the main…

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