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Shows & fairs, 1903

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Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association This Annual Exhibition. Large Entries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 2

The forty-third annual exhibition of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association will commence on the Society's grounds, West Maitland, on Tuesday next, and be will continued for four…

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Royal Agricultural Society's Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 April 1903 · page 3

The Weather was excellent in Sydney yesterday for the seventh day of the exhibition, and the attendance was between 9000 and 10,000 The takings so far amounted to £7291 13s 1d compared with…

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The Royal Agricultural Society's Show. Price of Stock Sold

Singleton Argus · Thursday 16 April 1903 · page 3

AT the sales, 210 guineas were paid for Mariner, by Mr A. J. Cotter, o Grandehesier, Queensland. Mariner was owned by Mr J. Penfold,…

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The Sydney Show. Additional Results

Singleton Argus · Thursday 16 April 1903 · page 2

THE Royal Society's Show was continued on Tuesday. The Governor-General Lord Tennyson was among the visitors…

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The Maitland Exhibition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 April 1903 · page 2

In our advertising columns will be found several important notices relative to the exhibition of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association, which opens on the Society's grounds, West…

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Sydney Show

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1903 · page 2

Although an off day, at the Show yesterday nearly nine thousand people were present Mrs. C. Elliott won the ladies' high jump on Skylark, which…

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Poetry. Show Your Pluck

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 April 1903 · page 4

Never like to see a feller Show a lack oF manly pluck, II'ist his hands an make a beller At a jab from rocky luck…

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Royal Agricultural Society's Show

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 6

The weather was excellent in Sydney on Wednesday for the seventh day of the exhibition, and the attendance was between 9000 and 10,000. The takings so far amounted to £7291 10s ld compared with…

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Royal Agricultural Society's Show

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 10

The attendance at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show in Sydney on Thursday and Friday was much larger than on the second and third days of last year. At the show on Friday, t[?]…

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Maitland Show

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 4
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

The entries for next week's Maitland Show total 3800, about 300 more than last year, and there is every prospect of a successful Show. There are 500 entries in…

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The Easter Show

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 4

The attendance at the Easter show of the Royal Agricultural Society has been phenomenal, and the "boom sters" are citing the fact as an…

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Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association. the Annual Exhibition. Large Entries

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 11

The forty-third annual exhibition of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association will commence on the Society's grounds, West Maitland, on Tuesday next, and be will continued for four…

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The Maitland Exhibition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 April 1903 · page 2

The forty-third annual exhibition of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association will be opened to-morrow on the Society's well-appointed show grounds, and the exhibition will be…

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Durham A. and H. Association

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 21 April 1903 · page 3

The usual weekly meeting of committee was held in the School of Arts on Thursday afternoon last when the following gentlemen…

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Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association. Forty-third Annual Exhibition. Opening Day—tuesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 April 1903 · page 2

To-day the forty-third annual exhibition of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association was opened on the Society's grounds, West Maitland. The past season has in many…

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Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association. Forty-third Annual Exhibition. the Second Day

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 April 1903 · page 2

The opening of the forty-third annual exhibition on the grounds of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association took place yesterday in very favourable circumstances. As already stated,…

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The Maitland Show. Forty-third Annual Exhibition

Singleton Argus · Thursday 23 April 1903 · page 3

This year's exhibition of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association was opened on the Society's wounds, West Maitland, on Tuesday…

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The Agricultural Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 April 1903 · page 2

THE people of the Maitland district and the committee of the venerable agricultural association may be heartily congratulated on the splendid success of the current exhibition…

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Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association. Forty-third Annual Exhibition. Third Day.—thursday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 April 1903 · page 2

The attendance yesterday—the second day of the Hunter River Association's forty-third annual show—was excellent. The total takings at the gates were £368 10s 2d, and at the grandstand £31 9s. Lord Tennyson yesterday received a deputation of [?]representatives of about 200 unemployed, who [?] in front of the Federal Government House. In Excellency, while expressing sympathy with…

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