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Mid North Coast · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1899

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Damaging Exhibits at the Show. To the Editor

Macleay Argus · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 4

SIR,--Before next Show the Committee of the Agricultural Society will have to seriously consider the question of holding concerts in the hall at night, otherwise there will be a…

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Upper Manning A. & H. ASSOCIATION. Fifteenth Annual Show. Lovely Weather. Numerous Exhibits. Attractive Display. Large Attendances. Great Success. Date of Show

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 4

IT was at first intended that the Fifteenth Annual Show in connection with the Upper Manning Agricultural and Horticultural Society should be…

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Upper Manning A. & H. Association. the Annual Show

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 10 May 1899 · page 2

IN our last issue we gave an extended report of the Show, without going into details of the winners in the various classes. A synopsis of the principal…

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Upper Manning River Show

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 11 May 1899 · page 3

THE above society's show took place at Wingham on Thursday and Friday last, 4th and 5th, and was the most successful for many years past. On Friday there were…

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U. M. A. and H. ASSOCIATION

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 17 May 1899 · page 2

A meeting of Committee was held in the Agricultural Hall on Saturday afternoon, a large number of Committee men being present. The President…

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Correspondence. the Agricultural Society and Bonuses. To the Editor

Macleay Argus · Saturday 17 June 1899 · page 9

SIR,--The custom of giving bonuses to paid officers in any public institutions is a most reprehensible one, and from the proceedings printed of the recent meeting of…

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The Agricultural Society. To the Editor

Macleay Argus · Saturday 24 June 1899 · page 7

SIR,--"Member" in the last issue of your journal touches on one important point in the working of the Society on which I crave permission to comment. The question of…

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The Agricultural Society and Bonuses. To the Editor

Macleay Argus · Saturday 24 June 1899 · page 7

SIR,--Under the above heading in your last issue "Member." after vainly trying to run down the just actions of the committeemen, asks: "If Mr. McMangh deserved a…

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Agricultural Society. To the Editor of the Wingham Chronicle

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 1 July 1899 · page 5

SIR.—I notice in. the report of the meeting of the members of the Upper Manning Agricultural Society that the President advised that the balance in…

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Upper Manning A. and H. Association

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 5 July 1899 · page 2

A special meeting of the Committee of the above Association was held in the Agricultural Hall on Saturday last. Mr. G. S. Hill (president) in the chair…

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Another Salvation Army Movement. an Exhibition Ot Colonial Products. London, June 29

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 5 July 1899 · page 4

THE colonies will exhibit their products at the forth-coming Salvation Army Exhibition in London. Mr. J. W. Taverner, the Victorian Minister for Agriculture, has taken 600 feet of space…

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Agricultural Society

Macleay Argus · Saturday 15 July 1899 · page 9

A CORRESPONDENT sends us the following conversation overheard between two foreigners re the election of the Agricultural Committee:--…

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Agricultural Society

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 29 July 1899 · page 2
Also in Macleay Argus

A COMMITTEE meeting of the Port Macquarie and H. D. Agricultural Society was held in the Society's rooms on Saturday last. The President, Mr. G. Lindsay occupied the…

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Port Macquarie Agricultural Society

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 3 August 1899 · page 4

At the annual meeting of the above society the report and balance-sheet were read and adopted The latter shows a [?] balance of over [?]26, and the whole of the buildings and…

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Agricultural Society

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 August 1899 · page 2

A COMMITTEE meeting of the Port Macquarie and H D. Agricultural Society was held in the Society's room on Tuesday last. The President, Mr. R. Davidson, occupied the…

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A Fair Newspaper Reader

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 19 August 1899 · page 8

She skips the columns that describe The horrors of the day; She only reads the head-lines o'er What politicians say…

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Coopernook Wild Flower Show

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 19 August 1899 · page 4

THE annual meeting of the committee of the Coopernook Wild Flower Show was held in Mrs Newton's Hall on the 14th inst, The president, Mr. W…

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Upper Manning A. and H. Association

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 13 September 1899 · page 3

A committee meeting of the above Association was held in the Agricultural Hall, on Saturday afternoon. There was a large attendance of…

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TELEGRAMS. Sydney, Friday. State Butter Show

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture has approved of a second State Butter Show being held in Sydney this week…

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