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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1917

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Record Show Crowd. SYDNEY

Western Age · Tuesday 10 April 1917 · page 2

The attendance at the Royal Agricultural Show yesterday totalled 112,000, easily creating a record…

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The Sydney Show

The Western Herald · Wednesday 11 April 1917 · page 2

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

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Show Revenue

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 April 1917 · page 4

The council of the society has to keep in mind that it must spend a considerable sum of money on sections which, as revenue producers, do not pay. For…

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Orange Show Races

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 April 1917 · page 12

The Orange Jockey Club's show meeting will be held on Saturday, 21st April, the prize money being £75. Nomination for all events close on Monday,…

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Wellington Show Races

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 April 1917 · page 12

The Wellington Jockey Club will hold their show meeting on Thursday and Friday, April 26 and 27, when an excellent programme will be decided. The…

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Show Trotting Meeting

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 April 1917 · page 12

The Wellington District Trotting Club's meeting on Saturday, 28th April, will bring the festivities of show week to a close. The meeting should be an…

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The R. A. Society Easter Show 1917. Written, Illustrated and Compiled Expressly for this Paper. Show Carnival [?]d Day Country Week in Sydney. [?] Producers' Holiday

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 April 1917 · page 3

for the [?] Show this [?] the most [?] fact that…

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Horse-women at the Show

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 April 1917 · page 4

During 20 years, Mrs. Stace has only been absent from the Sydney Show one year. For the last 25 years she has always gained two or three…

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Motors at the Show. Six" the Master Car

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 April 1917 · page 7

if necessary, and will forineas if they fail. So much performance, and appear perhaps the greatest feature…

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The Wellington Show. April 24 and 25. Entries Close on Saturday Next

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 April 1917 · page 11

The Easter holidays being over, the thoughts of the Wellington public (that is to say, the people of the town and district connected therewith)…

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Wellington Show

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 13 April 1917 · page 4

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A June Show

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 13 April 1917 · page 1

The promoters of the Easter Monday Carnival, encouraged by the success they achieved, the opposing forces notwithstanding, contemplate the…

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The Orange Show

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 13 April 1917 · page 4

The entries for the Orange Show closed on Wednesday last, and proved most gratifying und satisfactory to the Show Committee. The dates of the…

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Local and General Wellington Show

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 13 April 1917 · page 2

Intending exhibitors at Wellington show should note that entries close to-morow night. The show will be opened on next Tuesday week, and…

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"Sultry" Side-show Uralla Committeeman's Grievance

Gilgandra Weekly · Friday 13 April 1917 · page 11

At the last meeting of the Uralla Show Committee, the following letter was read from Mr. H. Cameron, of Athol:—I wish to bring under…

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Forbes Bowling Carnival. the Dubbo Men's Trip. (By One of the Team)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 13 April 1917 · page 5

When in Forbes twelve months ago we told them that we would never have any dithiculty in getting a team to visit the city on the Lachian; and this was…

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Horse-women at the Show

The Western Herald · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 8

During 20 years, Mrs. Stace has only been absent from the Sydney Show one year. For the last 25 years she has always gained two or three…

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The R. A. Society's Easter Show 1917. Written, Illustrated and Compiled Expressly for this Paper. Easter Show Carnival By Night and Day—Country Week in Sydney. Primary Producers' Holiday

The Western Herald · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 7

All the preliminary prospects for the Royal Agricultural Society's Show this year pointed to its being the most successful yet held, despite the fact that…

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Motors at the Show. "Mitchell Six" the Master Car. The Car Magnificient at the Show

The Western Herald · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 9

The beautiful lines of the new "Mitchell Six" Car, and the phenomenal records it has put up in New South Wales during the last twelve months…

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Wellington Show Races

The Wellington Times · Monday 16 April 1917 · page 3

The Wellington Jockey Club will hold their show meeting on Thursday and Friday, April 26 and 27, when an excellent programme will be decided. The…

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