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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1907

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Practical Farming. Lessons From the Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 March 1907 · page 5

The three collections of produce in the agricultural section at the Newcastle Show were proof to all who saw them of the wonderful fertility of the soil of New…

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Newcastle Show. Spoilt by the Weather

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 March 1907 · page 5

The sixth annual show of the Newcastle Agricultural Society, carried on for the first two days in adverse circumstances owing to the showery weather,…

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Newcastle Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 5

The magnitude of the loss suffered by the Newcastle Agricultural Association through the wet weather reducing the attendances on the first two days and…

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Cycling. To-night's Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 3

The postponed carnival of the Newcastle Amusement Company is to be held on the Rugby Ground to-night, when the programme, as originally drafted, will be…

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Newcastle Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1907 · page 5

The committee of the Newcastle Show continues to receive practical expressions of sympathy, owing to the loss incurred through the rain last week. The Fourth…

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Proposed Sydney Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 4

The citizens of Sydney are to be invited to-night to consider the expediency of holding another international exhibition in the…

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Cake and Apron Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 4

A cake and apron fair, organised by the Women's Guild of the Brown-street Congregational Church, was opened yesterday afternoon, and continued in the evening…

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International Exhibition. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 5

The Lord Mayor, Alderman Thomas Hughes, Presided to-day over a representative meeting of citizens called to give consideration to a proposal to hold an…

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Newcastle Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 7

Sir,—Emboldened by the reported success of my appeal to the prize winners in connection with the recent Newcastle Show, kindly allow me to suggest that…

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Newcastle Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 4

The committee of the Newcastle Agricultural Society put forward a most attractive of ring events for Saturday next. That great trotting horse,…

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Newcastle Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1907 · page 6

The Newcastle A.H. and I. Association brings its sixth annual show to a conclusion to-day, when an attractive programme of ring events will be submitted…

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Newcastle Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1907 · page 7

Sir,—Your report of the poultry awards at the late show has been shown to me. You inform the public that several breeders tried in vain to foist on the judge…

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Newcastle Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 March 1907 · page 7

Sir,—In your issue of Saturday, Mr. S. C. Fallick criticises the action of Mr. Samuel Fisher in suggesting that prize winners at the show should forego their prizes, and…

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Newcastle Show. the Ring Events

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 March 1907 · page 5

The curtain was finally brought down on the Newcastle Show of 1907 on Saturday, when the ring events, which had to be abandoned on the previous Saturday,…

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Newcastle Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1907 · page 6

Sir,—My letter which appeared in yours of the 23rd inst. seems to have angered Dr. Beeston, and somewhat worried Mr. Fisher. I am sorry the former gentleman…

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Newcastle Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 March 1907 · page 7

Sir,—I really thought that when Mr. Fallick took on the censorship of the Newcastle Show committee and myself, he would have exhibited a little more Irish…

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Exhibition of Women's Work. Meeting of Ladies

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 March 1907 · page 4

Some time ago a suggestion was made by Lady Northcote that steps should be taken to hold an exhibition of women's work in Melbourne. The idea was taken…

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The Royal Show. Official Opening. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 March 1907 · page 5

Rain interfered with the attendance at the Royal Agricultural Show to-day, but there was nevertheless a fair crowd present during the afternoon…

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Our Sydney Letter. the 'Frisco Mail Service.—the Relations Between Australia and America.—the Commonwealth and the Marconi Wireless System.—that Wonderful Diving Case in West AUSTRALIA.—Mr. "Tom" Johnson.—the Easter Show. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 March 1907 · page 7

The interested public sat up last evening when it read that paragraph relating to the Frisco mail service. As the writer said before, the San Francisco steamboat…

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Our New Zealand Letter. Wellington, March 22. New South Wales Agricultural Society

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 March 1907 · page 11

At the monthly meeting of the Manawatu Agricultural and Pastoral Association's committee the other day, the treatment of Mr. S. W. Luxford (one of the…

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