SYDNEY ROYAL SHOW
RECORD ATTENDANCE [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, April 17. The “Sunday Sun,” in describing the huge attendance at .the Sydney Royal Show on Saturday, states that at least 300 persons collapsed, mostly during the night session. A farmer dropped dead in the crush, ambulance men having to carry the body above their heads to the waggon. j The attendance was a record, being 183,895 for the one day. The total attendance at the show so far is more than 500,000.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1938, Page 7
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