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Mid North Coast · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1908

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Local Government Exhibition. Interesting Display of Shire and Municipal Requisites

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 9

The spacious basement of the Sydney Town Hall was the scene, recently, of a Local Government Exhibition, wherein an extensive variety of…

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Forster Flower Show

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 14 October 1908 · page 3

The Flower Show in aid of the Church of England, Forster, was opened on Friday last and was continued through Saturday…

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Church of England Flower Show

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 14 October 1908 · page 2

The Fifth Annual Flower Show in connection with St. Matthew's Church, Wing- ham, held on Friday And Saturday last, in the Federal Hall, was a pronounced [?]…

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Presbyterian Flower Show

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1908 · page 2

THE Flower Show in connection with the local Presbyterian Church was held on Friday and Saturday last, and was in every way a success. The flowers were tastefully…

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Methodist Flower Show

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 22 October 1908 · page 8

BEAUTIFUL weather favored the opening of the annual Methodist Flower Show last week, and the exhibition was made more than usually…

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Nabiac Flower Show. a Pronounced Success

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 28 October 1908 · page 2

The keynote of Success for this function was sounded both in the attendance and exhibit scale immediately the exhibition in aid of the…

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Beechwood Rower Show

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1908 · page 2

THE Beechwood Floricultural and Horticultural Association held their second exhibition in the Beechwood School of Arts Hail last Saturday, and, despite the unfavorable season and late frosts, was…

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Fair Play

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 November 1908 · page 9

A certain Judge of Cincinnati was very fond of talking with "sons of toil." When driving one day in his dogcart be stopped a plodding…

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Methodist Fair

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 7

The Methodist Church Grounds Wingham presented a gay and animated picture on Wednesday and Thursday last, when the annual fair in…

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Fair Day's Work

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 14 November 1908 · page 5

The Comptroller-General of the post office at Calcutta recently issued a circular, in which be stated under a large number of heads the amount of work which a clerk was…

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Gloucester Agricultural Society

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 26 December 1908 · page 9

A meeting of the Committee of the Gloucester Agricultural Society was held on Saturday last, Mr J. R. Higgins, Vice-President in the chair…

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Flower Show

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 December 1908 · page 2

THE flower show and sale of works in connection with the Church of England took place in the Agricultural Hall on Friday and Saturday the 18th and 19th inst. The function was liberally…

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The Show Schedule

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 December 1908 · page 2

THE schedule of the Port Macquarie and Hastings District Agricultural Society has been issued. The pamphlet this year shows by its arrangement and the allotment of…

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