Looking Back: Agricultural shows foster national pride

Updated January 20 2020 - 12:10pm, first published 11:47am
Show stalwarts: George Burgess, whose exhibits received praise in the 1945 show, some years later when he and his sister Olive received awards for their contribution to the show.
Show stalwarts: George Burgess, whose exhibits received praise in the 1945 show, some years later when he and his sister Olive received awards for their contribution to the show.

THE Bega Pioneers' Museum was last year given the bound copies of the Bega District News. In the 1945 book on March 15, the Bega District News ran a story on the second Far South Coast National Show. Formerly it was called the Bega Show.

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