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Shows & fairs, 1912

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Pictures for New Zealand a Fine Art Show. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 February 1912 · page 7

Mr. John Baillie, the art connoisseur, has Bent to New Zealand 500 representative British pictures valued at £20,000 to be exhibited for a month…

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Ladies Swimming Carnival Championship Won by Miss Durack. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 February 1912 · page 2

The ladies' swimming carnival was opened to-day. The log yards championship of Australia was won by Miss F. Durack, with Miss M. Wylie…

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The Royal Show

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1912 · page 4
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

The Royal Show, which begins on April 2nd in Sydney promises to beeven larger than any of its immdiate predecessors. the secretary…

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A Fair Trial

The Worker · Thursday 29 February 1912 · page 9

It is another instance of how a Socialistic experiment will always fail when tried by anti-Socialists.—"The Worker" on Victorian State Brickworks. ANTI-SOCIALISTIC LEGISLATOR: "No water, no coal, no timber, no nothing. This is just the place for us to try some of those socialistic experiments…

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The Royal Show

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 2

The Royal Show, which begins on April 2nd next, in Sydney promises to be even larger than any of its immediate predecessors. Applications…

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Mysterious Aduction. Only Cinematograph Show

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 7

There has been talk for several days in Paris of the mysterious abduction of a girl of 16 (wired the correspondent of the "Telegraph" on November 3). A…

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Farmers Fair

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 March 1912 · page 2

Entries for all sections on the Farmers' Fair schedule close on Tuesday next. All that day, Mr.George Lindon, the hon. secretary, will be in…

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District News Junee. the Flower Show

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 March 1912 · page 3

Admirers of the gardens will be pleased to bear that the Methodist Flower Show Committee held a very successful meeting last Thursday night…

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Local and General News Marrar Easter Carnival

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 2

The Marrar Athletic Club will hold a sports carnival on Easter Monday next, on the local recreation grounds. An excellent programme has been arranged,…

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The Home. When Should a Girl Show Her Love?

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 6 March 1912 · page 7

There Is a strange new development in these days-a development as unlovely and unnatural as it is strange—a girl who wants to do the wooing, instead of waiting to be…

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Items of News. Junee Show

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 March 1912 · page 2

The next annual show of the above association will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, September 4 and 5, 1912…

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Show Fixtures

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 12 March 1912 · page 2

As the several A. and P. Societies hold their annual meetings the dates for the 1912 exhibitions, are being finally fixed. At Narandera the dates…

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The Show. Splendid Entries Received. Bright Prospects

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 12 March 1912 · page 3

NOTWITHSTANDING the recent spell of dry weather, and other apparently unfavorable circumstances, the prospects for the 25th annual exhibition of the…

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Our Show. Splendid Entries

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1912 · page 4

The prospects of the Gundagai Show on Tuesday and Wednes-day next being a big success look excellent…

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Show Grounds Improvements

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 2

Notwithstanding the fact that the whole of the proposed improvements on the Wagga Show grounds were thrown out, the new Works…

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The Show

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 4

On Tuesday next the twenty-fifth annual exhibition under the auspices of the Gundagai P. and A. Society will commence, and…

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The Show. A Record Success

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 2

The 23rd annual meeting of the [?] P. and A Society held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week, was an all…

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Sydney Royal Show

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 7

Entries for the Royal Show, which begins on April 2nd, next, have closed. Up to the present the secretary is not in a position to supply the actual…

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Show Judging. Melbourne R.a.s. Decision

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 5

At the monthly meeting of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society at Melbourne the following debate took place on the system of judging stock:—…

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