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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1900

32 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 2

The Sydney Agricultural show

Hawkesbury Advocate · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 1

THIS great Easter Carnival promises to be better than ever this year as an Exhibition of what Mr. Coghlan would call the…

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The Show Schedule. (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 8

SIR,—I have asked many times for the last month for a schedule of our Show, and am informed that none are to be had yet. Why I do not know, but if this sort of thing is going to go on, the sooner a…

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Nepean Show

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 24 March 1900 · page 6

THE following is a complete list of local awards at the Nepean Show, held last week.:— HORSES…

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Is This Fair?

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 31 March 1900 · page 9

LAST week we wrote the Secretary of the H.D.A.A.., asking if he would be good enough to forward us a supply of the Society's schedule. We had up to that time received about thirty applications for…

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The Plague and the Royal Agricultural Show

Hawkesbury Advocate · Friday 13 April 1900 · page 5

No doubt many of our readers, who usually go to Sydney at Easter time, will this yesr, on account of the plague, consider it judicious to remain away. We…

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The Corning Show

Hawkesbury Advocate · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 7

Entries are coming in rapidly, and the Secretary now has hope of the total reaching at least 2000 by closing day, Monday next…

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Sydney Show

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 5

IN addition to those published in our last issue, the following local exhibitors took prizes at the Sydney Show :—Maize, large yellow or flint, one dozen…

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R. A. S. Show

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 14

THE Hawkesbury was very much in evidence in the horse sections at the Sydney Show, and exhibits from this district beat all before them in the blood, coaching…

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The Show

Hawkesbury Advocate · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 1

NOTWITHSTANDING the plague, which undoubtedly kept a great number of country people away from Sydney, the Show passed…

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The Show

Hawkesbury Advocate · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 2

Brilliant weather favoured the opening and succeeding days, rendering everything pleasant and favourable for visitors. The first day was, as usual, devoted to…

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Show Stock Sales

Hawkesbury Advocate · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 1

MESSRS. Hill, Clark and Co. were particularly interested factors in this year's exhibition, in that some of the finest specimens of cattle shown were…

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Sheep at the Show

Hawkesbury Advocate · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 1

THE Royal Agricultural Show is supposed to be the great annual exhibition of the wealth and industries fo the colony. Never…

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The 1900 Royal Agricultural Show

Hawkesbury Advocate · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 1

WHEN the obvious drawbacks with which the Show has had to contend this year are taken into consideration, it is pleasing to know that the 1900…

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Panorama of Show Ring, Be

Hawkesbury Advocate · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 8

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A Disinterested Stranger at Tee Sydney Show

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 1

I WENT to my fate with my eyes wide open; alas ! they were closed with dust, blizzard and smoke when I returned. I mean, of course, that considering the weather there…

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Show Continued

Hawkesbury Advocate · Friday 11 May 1900 · page 5

lin 2; melons, long, preserving, A. J. Daley I. M Horan 2; melons, round, preserving, A Haunabus 1, T Griffiths 2; melons, English, preserving, A Daley 1…

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Hawkesbury District Agricultural Association. Annual Show

Hawkesbury Advocate · Friday 11 May 1900 · page 13

JUDGES: Blood horses, G. M. Rouse, W. Forrester, Hon, R. H. Roberts, John Jones, M. Pearce; Coaching horses, C. W. Cotgrave, J. Fagan, G. Hindmarsh; Trotting horses, R. Clarke, W. Bllot,—Fitzgerald; Draught horses, M. Gleeson, T. Ellis, H…

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The Show

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 7

" The Show's the thing."—SHAKESPEARE. What a treat was the Show—oh, the cattle and dogs And apples and melons and sorghum and hay…

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The Late Hawkesbury Show [By Old Hand.]

Hawkesbury Advocate · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 3

There can be no mistake about it. The Hawkesbury Show of the year 1900 which came to a finish on Saturday last, was about the best thing of the kind that…

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The Hawkesbury District Agricultural Show. a Splendid Success

Hawkesbury Advocate · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 3

In last week's issue we had necessarily to curtail several items of interest connected with the opening of the Show, and of the different…

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