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Hunter Valley · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1927

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Newcastle Show Judging Pavilion Exhibits. Big Entry of School Work. NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 February 1927 · page 4

Judging at Newcastle Show yesterday was confined to needlework, fine arts, photography, and school work…

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Newcastle Show Family Day. The Stock Exhibits. NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 February 1927 · page 4

Yesterday was family day at Newcastle Show, special concessions being allowed children. Despite the hot weather, there was a large…

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Rodeo Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 February 1927 · page 4

Maitland is to have a rodeo at the show this year, in place of a motor cycle carnival, and arrangements are well in hand to make it a big…

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Police Intervene at Carnival

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 February 1927 · page 9

At a memorial carnival held in Bathurst the police intervened, prohibiting the chocolate wheels and games of chance. Representations…

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Tom Handley's Show

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 February 1927 · page 2

On Tuesday and Wednesday, night Tom. Handley's rodeo was crowded. There were plenty of bucking horses, mules and bullocks, and owing to…

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Show Sporting Events

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 February 1927 · page 4

Mr. M. A. Brown, secretary of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association, was at Newcastle show yesterday and received a…

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School Bands For Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 February 1927 · page 4

At a meeting of the Maitland Show Committee last night, Mr. J. P. Enright put forward a proposal that the school bands in the Newcastle…

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Cessnock Show Meeting of Committee

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 February 1927 · page 4

The Agricultural Association met in d'A[?] avel's Chambers on Wednesday evening, when Mr. J. Y. Tulloch presided over a large…

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Local and General Presbyterian Flower Show

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 February 1927 · page 2

It has been decided by the ladies of the congregation of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Churh, Dungog, that a flower show and sale of work be…

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Newcastle Show the Third Day. Ring Events

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 February 1927 · page 6

The attendance at Newcastle Show yesterday. when it was officially opened by Mr. M. Charlton, M.H.R., was large, but slightly below that…

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Proposed Swimming Baths. Discussion in Council. Mayor Advocate the Get-together Movement to Raise Fund. Suggest holding Big Carnival to extent over week

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 February 1927 · page 1

The Swimming Baths Scheme was referred to at Wednesday's inectof the Municipal Council. In outlining the scheme, and giving a resume of the mass of information which had heen collected, the Mayor (Ald. Humphries) said that the cost of the schemc, though…

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Show Successes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 6

Mrs. H. York, of West Maitland, again scored with her pug dogs at Newcastle show yesterday. In the class for open dogs (black), she…

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The Coming Show

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 7

The prospects for the annual pastoral and agricultural exhibition, to be hold hero in April next, arc as bright as could be desired, and were…

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Holiday for Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 6

Hon: Walter Bennett, M.L.A., has been advised that Thursday, March 3, has been proclaimed a public holiday in the following shires and…

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Cessnock Show. Arranging for Opening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 11

Cessnock District Agricultural Association has everything in readiness for its annual show, commencing next Thursday…

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Jersey Records. Productivity of Show Winning Studs

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 6

The substantial prizes offered by the New South Wales branch of the Australasian Jersey Herd Society, with the object of stimulating the…

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Cessnock Show. Meeting of Association. Insurance Against Rain

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 11

The Cessnock District Agricultural Association, at its last meeting, decided to insure against rain. Policies have been taken out for…

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Newcastle Show Fourth Day. The New Trotting Record

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 10

The takings at Newcastle show yesterday were £174/18/, compared with £182/15/ on the fourth day last year…

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Newcastle Show the Opening Day. a Big Increase in Entries. NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 5

The Newcastle Show opened to-day under favourable conditions, following showers yesterday and last nigh to-day broke fine and with a…

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Maitland Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 February 1927 · page 4

As the entries for the sporting events for Maitland Show do not close till to-night, it is not yet possible to give the total number of…

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