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Hunter Valley · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1928

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Royal Easter Show. £14,000 Prize Money

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 3 January 1928 · page 3

The prize schedule for next year's Royal Easter Show has been issued. At the 1906 show the prize money was only £3,200…

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Newcastle Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 4

The 1928 Newcastle Show is advertised to talco place on February 21 to 25. All entries close on February 4. Schedules are available on…

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Hunters for Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 4

The hunting and jumping events have always been one of the main features on exhibition at the Maitland Show, and they promise to be…

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King Charles. the Fair and Fatal Monarch

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 4

The London Museum already has its memorials of "the fair and fatal King." The shirt which King Charles were on the January…

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Bowls. Country Carnival

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 7

Country bowlers are reminded that entries for the country week carnival, to be held in Sydney from February 11, to February 11, both days inclusive…

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Maitland Show Schedule

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 4

The schedule for the Maitland Show, which opens on February 29, has been received from the printer, and the secretary (Mr. M. A. Brown)…

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Cessnock Show Schedule

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 3

The scdedule for the forthcoming Cessnock Show, to be held in February, has just been issued, and contains a number of additions and…

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Local and General Newcastle Show

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 2

Attention is directed to the advt. in this issue concerning Newcastle's 1928 Show, which is being held from February 21st to 25th…

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The State Governor. to Open Muswellbrook Show

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 1

Advice, has been received to the effect that Sir Dudley de Chair, the Stale Governor, has cosented to open the next Upper…

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District Exhibit at Singleton Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 4

A meeting was hold in the show office to finalise matters in connection with the Maitland District Exhibit at Singleton Show. Mr. C. W…

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Tennis Carnival. Knock-out Round

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 7

Heavy rain, which fell on Sunday, caused a delay in the resumption of the country tennis carnival at the White City courts yesterday…

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Singing at Show Canaries and Finches

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 3

Amongst the many and varied attractions at the forthcoming Cessnock Show, none will have more attention than the canaries and small…

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Maitland Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 4

It will not be long before the Maitland Show will be around again. With the wonderful season being experienced by the farming…

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Henry's Show

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 3

Mr. Henry Ford, who is attending this Automobile Show, in an interview stated that he contemplated an aeroplane trip to his rubber plantation in the near future…

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Maitland Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 4

A letter was received from Mr. M. A. Brown, secretary of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association at the meeting of the…

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Maitland Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 4

The staging of exhibits by local manufactures, which was instituted at last Maitland Show, will again be a big attraction at the…

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Bowls. Country Week Carnival

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 7

For the Country Week Carnival to be held in Sydney from February 6 to February 11, 314 entries have been received for the country singles…

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Cattle Exhibits Cessnock Annual Show

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 13 January 1928 · page 8

For the Princes of millions, for faces august, For the leaders, the people [?] shout:…

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M. T. A. Motor Show

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 January 1928 · page 7

The Motor Show which was opened in Sydney to-day, is the fifth of the series held under the anspices of the Motor Traders' Association…

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275,222 at Motor Show

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 January 1928 · page 7

Now attendance records were created at the recent Olympia motor show, London, when 275,222 persons paid for admission…

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