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Mid North Coast · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1909

137 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 7 of 7

Dressmaking Exhibition

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 25 November 1909 · page 4

An exhibition of needlework and dressmaking in connection with the classes conducted by Miss Melville, teacher under the Department of…

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Fair Play

Nambucca News · Friday 26 November 1909 · page 7

A group of American commercial travellers were telling yarns on the subject of hospitality, when one of them took up his parable thus:…

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Australian Fancy Fair at Kinchela

Macleay Argus · Saturday 27 November 1909 · page 14

ON Wednesday afternoon last a competitive exhibition and fancy fair was opened in the Kinchela School of Arts, the object being to raise funds…

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Proposed Extension of the Show Grounds. To the Editor

Macleay Argus · Saturday 27 November 1909 · page 18

Sir,--It is truly refreshing to have a suggestion for the extension of the Macleay A.H. and I. Association. For years past there has not been such an…

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Kinchela Fair

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 2 December 1909 · page 5

THE Australian Fair and competitions was opened in the Good Templars' Hall at Kinchela on Wednesday last by the President of Macleay Shire…

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Dressmaking Exhibition

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 2 December 1909 · page 4

Owing to the inclemency of the weather on Saturday the exhibition of needlework and dressmaking in connection with the classes conducted by…

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Minstrel Show

Nambucca News · Friday 3 December 1909 · page 6

Bowraville Black Diamonds made their debut to a local audience last week in the School of Arts when a very fair house greeted the ringing up of the curtain…

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Dressmaking Exhibition

Macleay Argus · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 6

THE Macleay River Technical Dressmaking Glasses held a successful exhibition of their work in Kempsey School of Arts on Thursday evening, and this gave a glimpse of what this district misses in its…

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Trouble among Show Cattle

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 10

A peculiar mortality has broken out amongst cattle that were exhibited at the Murwillumbah Show last week. Three died and the others are ill. It…

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Technical Education. Exhibition of Dressmaking Classes

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 9 December 1909 · page 2

AN exhibition of work by the dressmaking classes which have been Conducted by Miss Melville under the Department of Technical Education…

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Butterfly Fair

Nambucca News · Friday 10 December 1909 · page 4

Macksville Methodists arc out with a butterfly fair which is said to even surpass the beautiful delicacy of its namesake. The function, which is in aid of the…

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Poetry Fair Looks Are Oft Deceiving

Macleay Argus · Saturday 11 December 1909 · page 16

Fair looks are oft deceiving, Bright hope still ends in rue; My soul was all believing When I began to woo…

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Church of England Continental. Gathering on the Show Ground

Macleay Argus · Saturday 11 December 1909 · page 10

IT was generally conceded that the continental in aid of the Church of England should have been held when the moon was high in the sky, but all the…

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Gloucester Agricultural Society

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 15 December 1909 · page 4

A meeting of the Committee of this society was held on the show ground on Saturday last 11th instant. Mr. J. R. Higgins, President,…

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Agricultural Society

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 16 December 1909 · page 2

THE regular meeting ws held on Friday. Present: Messrs. J. C. Elton (President), C. Teague, Jas. Campbell, Jno. Booth, A. J. O'Shea, E. Kesby…

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Stroud Exhibition of Schoolwork

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 8

A highly successful exhibition of the years school work was held in the the Stroud School on Wednesday 15 inst. The school work was divided into…

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Butterfly Fair at Macksville

Nambucca News · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 4

FRIDAY and Saturday last were eminently red letter days in the history of Macksville Methodism, for they signalled the opening and continuance of the Butterfly…

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