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Shows & fairs, 1972

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Another show!

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 22 February 1972 · page 1

Another baby show will be held in the Masonic Hall, Merrylands, next week…

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Show Starts Friday Night

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 22 February 1972 · page 6

A fireworks display, a full day and night of Olympic jumping and a rodeo are expected to be highlights of Blacktown Agricultural Society's “new look” show…

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Merrylands Toddlers Shine at Baby Show

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 22 February 1972 · page 4

LEFT: Radio announcers Roger Summerill, left, and John Tingle, talk with prize winner Joley-Katryn Moore and her mother. Mrs. Helen Moore, at the baby show organised by Care and Help for…

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Success of Baby Show

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 February 1972 · page 1

Western Suburbs Synagogue will establish a kindergarten, following the success of its first baby show last Sunday…

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More Gang Show scenes Many had part in production

The Biz · Thursday 24 February 1972 · page 2

Girls took part in the Fairfield Scouts' Gang Show for the first time this year. More than 60 people were involved in production of last week's three…

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Party to see show at new Macleay Theatre

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 March 1972 · page 13

The NAJEX Ladies' Auxiliary's first meeting this year was chaired by president Clarice Wittenberg, who had just returned from a six-weeks overseas tour with her husband…

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World Champions Will Show

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 7 March 1972 · page 12

The success of the NSW paraplegic bowls team will rest largely on the performance of world champion. Eric Magennis…

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N.s. Fun Fair

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 March 1972 · page 4

A family fun fair will be held at the North Shore Synagogue on Sunday, March 19. Facilities will indude tombola,…

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"Mini-carnival" Plan for Sydney Next June

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 March 1972 · page 20

NSW Macccsbi plans m "mini-carnival" in Sydney during the June holiday weekend, with teams coming from Melbourne ind Brisbane. Invitations have been sent…

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It’s a great show

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 March 1972 · page 4

“For the poet is a light-winged and holy thing and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses This quotation from Plato is included as part…

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World Round-up Police seize nine in shule Emperor Opens Fair

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 March 1972 · page 12

LONDON: As a large crowd of Ukrainians looked on, and shouted anti-Semitic slogans, plainclothes police prevented 60 young Jews from entering the Kiev synagogue for prayers last week and later arrested nine of them, writes the JONS East…

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Baby Show

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 21 March 1972 · page 5

The Holroyd Centenary Baby Show began on Monday. The Show will include five…

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What Wasn't Said in Gmh Chief's Show

Tribune · Tuesday 21 March 1972 · page 10

IT stuck out a mile that either General Motors-Holden big wheel A. G. Gibbs himself, or someone else, had laid down beforehand just what character of questions could and could not be asked in Mr…

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Trotting Carnival

The Biz · Thursday 23 March 1972 · page 6

A special Easter trotting carnival will be held at Fairfield showground next week…

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July Show

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 23 March 1972 · page 10

The annual Great Synagogue Art Show will open on July 16. The date was…

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Israel Travel in Royal Show

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 30 March 1972 · page 1

Alderman Leo Port officially opened the travel exhibition of the Israel Government Tourist Office at the Royal Easter Show last Friday in the presence of Israel Consul-General, Mr David Marmor. The exhibition will be on display until April 4 and is designed to…

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Shabbat Lamp at the Show

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 30 March 1972 · page 7

A 170-year-old silver Shabbat lamp will be on display during the Royal Agricultural Society…

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Promotion of Leisure Fair in Marseilles

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 31 March 1972 · page 4

The Marseilles Spring Fair, organised by the International Fair of Marseilles, deals with the promotion of leisure time activites…

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Holroyd’s Baby Show Style of some of the contenders

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 4 April 1972 · page 6

A record number of entries is expected for Holroyd’s Centenary Baby Show, organised this year to coincide with a grand array of celebrations. As with similar shows…

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Sydney Entertainment Scene Easter (Art) Show Disappoints

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 April 1972 · page 6

The painting section at the Easter Show Art Exhibition becomes more depressing each year. This year it reached an all time low with few major artists competing for the relatively handsome prizes…

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