NEWS FROM THE PAST

TOOWOOMBA CARNIVAL

The attractions for carnival week in Toowoomba will include three days Royal Agricultural Show, Toowoomba Turf Club races for two days at Clifford Park, Toowoomba Gun Club shoot for the championship of Queensland, a polo tournament, Rugby League football match (opening of the season), athletic and sporting events. The social and evening entertainments will include a garden party, hospital ball, military ball, euchre parties and dances, concerts and orchestral evenings, Austral Dramatic Company productions, Strand Theatre musical and vocal competitions, society dinners, and Anzac banquets and band recitals. Arrangements have been made for special transit services to the various functions, and trips to the range and mountain scenery beauty spots during carnival week. A feature of the week will be a big rally of the Primary Producers’ Union, the Town Hall Theatre having been reserved for the occasion, and delegates will be present from other

States in the Commonwealth. The carnival committee have made special arrangements with the Queensland Railway Department for railway facilities, and railway stations will be provided with posters conveying information of the time tables, etc, for the general public. Anyone living away from railway centres may obtain full information from the carnival organising secretary (Mr TL Adamson), Margaretstreet, Toowoomba.

Warwick Daily News, March 20, 1920