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Hunter Valley · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1903

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Local News. The Singleton Show

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 September 1903 · page 4

This morning the final meeting of the year in connection with the Singleton Show and the N. A. Association will be held in the Committee, room at the…

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The Late Show

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 15 September 1903 · page 2

At the meeting of the General Com. mittee sf the N. A. Association held on Saturday, and reported in this issue, there were congratulatory remarks made and…

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Grosford Wild Flower Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 September 1903 · page 5

The Gosford annual wild flower and fern show was opened yesterday by Mrs. G. H. Reid, who was accompanied by her husband. The visitors were driven to the Gosford State nursery, thence round…

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Hunter River A. and H. Association

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 October 1903 · page 5

A special general meeting of the members of the above association was held in the Committee Room yesterday afternoon for the purpose of electing two trustees in the room of…

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South Singleton Park for Show Purposes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 October 1903 · page 7

At last night's meeting of the South Singleton Council, consideration was given to the question of allowing the use of the park in the Northern Agricultural Association for…

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Dairy Exhibition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 October 1903 · page 3

At the Islington dairy show there were 17 entires of Victorian butters, one of South Australian butter, and five of New Zealand butters in the butter competition. The prizes were:— Salt Butter.—…

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H. R. A. and H. Association

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 October 1903 · page 13

A special general meeting of the members of the above association was held in the Committee Room on Monday afternoon for the purpose of electing two trustees in the room of…

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Singleton Show Ground. Question of Accommodation. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 October 1903 · page 5

An important meeting of the committees of the Northern Agricultural Association was held to-day to take steps towards increasing the present accommodation for show purposes…

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The Site for a Show Ground

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 October 1903 · page 2

Among other matters discussed at the meeting of the N. A. Association on Saturday, the question of proposed now sites for a Showground was on the…

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Singleton Show Ground. Question of Accommodation. Singleton

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 October 1903 · page 13

An important meeting of the committee of the Northern Agricultural Association was held to-day to take steps towards increasing the present accommodation for show purposes…

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Flower Show

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 20 October 1903 · page 2

The Boner show in aid of the local Church of England has for a long time been the topic of conversation among horticulturists and flower…

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Hunter River A. and H. Association

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 October 1903 · page 6

A special general meeting of members of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association was held in the committee room, on the society's grounds, yesterday…

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Dinners on the Show Ground

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 24 October 1903 · page 2

Mrs. M. J. Hey wood announces iu oar advertising columns that the will provide dinners for the public on the Show Ground on the occasion of the Eight hour Sports on…

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Solution of 888. (Omitted last week.) B—Kt. Additional solutions from M.A. and H. Merrick. Chess the Tyrant

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 October 1903 · page 6

The authoress of "Celebrities and I" says that Mr. Richard Whiteing, who wrote "5 Johnstreet," now plays "chess with typical regularity," There have been times, however, when the game…

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THE Muswellbrook Chronicle O, sacred weapon, left for truth's defence Sole dread of folly, vice and insolence, Reverent we touch thee! but with honest zeal To rouse the henchman of the public weal. Saturday, Oct. 24, 1903. The Young People's Exhibition

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 October 1903 · page 2

THE Young People's Art and Industrial Exhibition is to come off next Thursday, and it is to be hoped that it will he a success The importance of the…

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Art and Industrial Exhibition

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 2

THE Young People's Art and Industrial Exhibition, promoted by Rev. W. Marshall, which was held in the School of Arts, on Thursday last,…

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Chapter Vii. Two Weavers Fair

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 4

Spindle ford, like many another place where the greater portion of the female half of the community spends its work-a-day life in the mills, was lucky,…

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Our Singleton Letter the Proposed New Show Ground

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 November 1903 · page 4

At a meeting of the committee of the Northern Agriculture Association on Saturday—Mr. Henry Roarke (president) in the chair—the proposal to purchase a new…

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The Show Ground

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 7 November 1903 · page 2

A notification has been published in the Government Gazette to the effect that in accordance with the provisions of the Public Trusts Act, 1897, His Excellency…

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The Need for a New Show Ground

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 November 1903 · page 2

The necessity for a new and more extended ground for the annual exhibitions of the Northern Agricultural Association has for some time been a subject of much consideration and one that it is generally…

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