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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1912

184 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 10

Maitland District. H.r.a. and H. Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 November 1912 · page 6

A meeting of the committee of management of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association was held in the committee room on the Showground,…

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Maitland District. St. John's Empire Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 November 1912 · page 6

St. John's Empire Fair, organised by committees of ladies and gentlemen of St. John's Cathedral parish, was opened, in the Town Hall on Saturday afternoon, in…

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Hamilton. Presbyterian Church Variety Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 November 1912 · page 7

A sale of work, under the style of a variety fair, was opened in the schoolhall of the Hamilton Presbyterian Church yesterday afternoon. The Rev. A…

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St. Andrew's Church. Summer Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 November 1912 · page 6

A summer carnival and sale of work, in connection with St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Newcastle, was opened by Mrs. H. M. Shedden, the Mayoress, in the…

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Fair and Unfair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 November 1912 · page 15

Socular education is the educational system which is fairest, perhaps, of alone, is fair to the conflicting religious bodies, but it is absolutely unfair to…

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Shopping Week Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 November 1912 · page 6

Alderman M'Lauchlin, the Mayor, presided over a public meeting at the town call inst evening, convened for the purpose of considering the proposal to held…

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Fair Weather Players

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 November 1912 · page 3

Politicians can play a brilliant hand when things are coming their way, but when the drift is all the other way they are a helpless lot…

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District News. Stockton. Bazaar and Flower Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 November 1912 · page 3

In conjunction with the annual bazaar and continental, the members of the ladies' guild of St. Paul's Church of England have this year added a flower show…

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Stamp Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 November 1912 · page 3

The most popular feature of the Jubilee International Stamp Exhibition, opened on Monday by Mr. Herbert Samuel, the Postmaster-General, at the…

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London News. London, October 18. Turkey Declares War.—london Locomotion.—stamp Exhibition.—land Question.—the Suffragettes.—the Springboks. Turkey Declares War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 November 1912 · page 3

Turkey has declared war against Bulgaria and Servia, and an order has been issued in Constantinople, placing Bulgarian and Servian subjects under police…

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Wine Exhibition. Australians Improving. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 November 1912 · page 5

The judges in the Wine and Brewers' Exhibition state that, on the whole, colonial viticulturists are studying the best methods of production…

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Speers' Point Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 November 1912 · page 6

Mr. Frank D'Archy, of Speers' Point, announces an attractive programme for Saturday next. The Abermain and Killingworth miners are holding their…

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Fair Play

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 December 1912 · page 9

The advocates of proportional representation want only fair play, so that an equal number of voters shall be equally represented, and that one man's…

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Skuthorp's Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 December 1912 · page 6

The inborn love of Australians for the horse, the admiration for feats recalling the days of pioneering heroism, the characteristic of our women folk that brings…

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Exhibition of School Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 December 1912 · page 6

An increasing exhibition of school work was made at the West Wallsend Superior Public School on Friday afternoon. The work included a display of manual…

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Skuthorpe's Wild West Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 December 1912 · page 6

The programme of Lance Skuthorpe's Wild West Show, which is to be given on the Newcastle Show Ground next Saturday, appears in another column. The…

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A Successful Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 December 1912 · page 6

The ladies and gentlemen who took part in organising the fair and art union recently held in the town hall, in aid of St. John's parochial funds, were…

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District News. Adamstown. Mechanics' Institute Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 December 1912 · page 3

There was a very good attendance yesterday at the opening of the variety fair in the Carrington Hall, Adamstown, in aid of the building fund of the proposed new…

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District News. Wallsend and Plattsburg Church of England Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 December 1912 · page 6

At the Masonic Hall, Wallsend, yesterday afternoon, a sale of work having for its object the benefit of the Marylands Mission Hall fund, was opened by Mrs. W…

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Skuthorpe's Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 December 1912 · page 6

Skuthorpe's buckjumpers gave an exhibition on the Newcastle Show Ground on Saturday, in the presence of a moderate attendance. The threatening state…

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