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Mid North Coast · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1917

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Royal Show Record

The Northern Champion · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 4

Over 112,000 people visited the Show at the Royal Agricultural Grounds on Easter Mondy, and upwards of 10,000 attended in the…

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Colossal Show Returns

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 4

THERE appears to be no lack of money in Sydney if we take the attendance at the show as a guide. On Good Friday 99.000 people paid for admittance, and on Easter…

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Hastings District Dairy Co. Again Successful. at the Royal Show

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 4

FOR the fifth consecutive year the Hastings Distinct Cooperative Dairy Co., Ltd., has been among the placed factories in the continuous butter…

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The Show

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 17 April 1917 · page 2

The Upper Manning Show is the next item of importance, and all preliminaries are well to the front. The "Pipe" Band will be here this time…

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Colossal Show Returns

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 18 April 1917 · page 4

There appears to be no lack of money in Sydney if we take the attendance at the show as a guide. On Good Friday 99,000 people paid…

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Current Events Reviewed The Show

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1917 · page 1

There is only one Show—for the Sydneyite—in the whole world. That is the Easter Show of the Royal Agricultural Society. It is…

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The Show

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 24 April 1917 · page 2

At time of writing everything looks most promising for the Show, which opens to-morrow (Wednesday) and continues on Thursday. Already…

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Wingham Show

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 25 April 1917 · page 2

Wingham Show opens to-day (Wednesday) and will be continued on Thursday. which has been proclaimed a public holiday in both Manning…

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Methodist Flower Show

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1917 · page 5

THE committee of the Methodist Flower Show have not been discouraged by such trifles as the loss of the School of Arts, which for eighteen years part has been the…

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Show Prizemoney

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 2 May 1917 · page 4

Prizes won at the recent Show are now payable, on application at the office of the Secretary, Mr. Ernest Weeks. The prizes total £370, and…

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The Settler. Show Judges

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 2 May 1917 · page 8

After Saturday's Show meeting several committee-men reckoned grade cattle should be judged by points; but others queried the possibility of…

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Dungog Show

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1917 · page 2

The annual exhibition of the Dungog A. and H. Association took place on Wednesday and Thursday last. The first day…

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R.A. Show

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 8 May 1917 · page 4

At a meeting of members of the Royal Agricultural Society it was received to change the breeding date of cattle for the Royal Show from…

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Show for 14 Years

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 8 May 1917 · page 4

Fourteen years ago writer first made acquaintance with Wingham Show, which he has visited each year since It had always been represented as the…

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Manning River Poultry Show

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 11 May 1917 · page 5

Owing to a variety of cricumstances the committee have found it necessary to alter the date of their first Poultry Show, which was fixed for 8th and…

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M.R.A. and H. Association. Annual Meeting. Election Supplies Some Surprises

The Northern Champion · Saturday 12 May 1917 · page 3

The annual meeting of the members of the M.R.A. and H. Association was held in the pavillion, Showground, on Wednesday…

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"The Northern Champion." "For the People and Progress." Taree, Wednesday, May 16, 1917. Taree's Agricultural Society

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 16 May 1917 · page 2

With thriving, enthusiastic, energetic societies round it, in Nabiac and Wingham, the visitor to the district is filled with wonder when he sees the oldest society, in the largest and most prosperous and thickly-populous centre-moribund. Yet that…

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Frightful Carnival of Death

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 18 May 1917 · page 6

M. A. Tudesq (correspondent at the front of "Le Journal") states that the lavish gas expenditure is characteristic of the fury of the attacks and counter…

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Proceeds of Flower Show

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 May 1917 · page 4

The [?] proceeds of the recent Methodist Flower Show are over [?] which is regarded as highly satifactory considering several very serious disadvantages under…

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Thumbnail Sketches. M.R.A. AND H.A. LAND

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 23 May 1917 · page 2

Mr. A. E. Smith, who was elected president of the Manning River Agricultural and Horticultural Association at the meeting on Saturday,…

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