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Shows & fairs, 1897

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The Easter Show. Coast Winners

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 17 April 1897 · page 2

The Easter Show in Sydney was open[?] on Wednesday. but the principal [?] was not completed till Thursday. The dairy cattle brought forward a fine lot of local br[?]dors, the…

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What Show Tests Teach

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 23 April 1897 · page 4

THE “Sydney Mail,” in dealing with this question, says :— “The system of dairying, with its payments for actual butter fat received, should be a strong…

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Royal Agricultural Show. Milk and Butter Tests

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 24 April 1897 · page 1

The most importance and at the same time the most interesting feature of the judging in the farm and produce sections on Saturday (says the "Telegraph") was the…

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Chrysanthemum Show

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 April 1897 · page 2

THE above annual show, under the auspices of the Bega Presbyterian Church, took place on Wednesday and Thursday last. The show was held a week or ten…

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Chrysanthemum Show

Moruya Examiner · Friday 30 April 1897 · page 2

THE above show, held annually in connection with St. John’s Anglican Church, was opened in the Mechanics’ Institute on Wednesday at 5 p.m. by the vicar, Rev. J…

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Shoalhaven A. and H. Association

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 May 1897 · page 2

The committee of the above association met yesterday afternoon. The President (Mr. R. Aberdeen) occupied the chair, and there was a fairly large attendance of members…

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Ulladulla A. and H. Society

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 8

A meeting of the committee was held at the Commercial Hotel on Monday evening Present—Messrs. J. Cork (president) C.A. Cork, J. Trapp, J. Petty, J. E. Pinney, J…

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Agricultural Society

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 5 June 1897 · page 4

A meeting of the committee was held at the Star Hotel on Wednesday evening. Present—Messrs. J. Cork, J.P. (in the chair), J. Latta, J. Buchan, J. Petty W…

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Agricultural show By-laws

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 5 June 1897 · page 2

In onder that the committeemen of the several district agricultural s[?] may properly consider the by-laws approved of at the Berry conference, we publish the code in full:—…

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Shoalhaven A. and H. Association

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 9 June 1897 · page 2

A special meeting of the Shoalhaven A. and H. Association was held on Monday afternoon to consider the recent by-laws drawn up by the Societies Conference at Berry. [?]ere was a…

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Agricultural Society

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 26 June 1897 · page 4

A committee meeting was held at the Commercial Hotel on Thursday evening. Present—Mr. J. Latta (vice-president, in the chair), Messrs. J. Buchan, F. W. Cork,…

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The Agricultural Society. at Sea on a Delicate Subject

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 7 July 1897 · page 2

The Agricultural Association got itself into a great muddle yesterday over a simple question . It would seem that when Mr. Murray resigned from the Society, Mr. John Monagham, the next…

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The Sydney Sheep Show

Moruya Examiner · Friday 9 July 1897 · page 2

THE industry which the Governor, Lord Hampden, aptly referred to as “the back bone of the prosperity of the colony” has been much in evidence in the metropolis…

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Agricultural Society

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 10 July 1897 · page 5

A meeting of the committee was held at the Star Hotel on Thursday evening. Present—Messrs. J. Cork (president), J. Latta, Adam Warden, F. W. Cork, J…

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Bega A., P. and H. Society

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 30 July 1897 · page 2

THE twenty-fifth annual meeting of members of the Bega A., P. and H. Society was held yesterday afternoon, in the School of Arts, been [?] owing…

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Agricultural Society

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 7 August 1897 · page 1

A meeting of the committee was held at the Commercial Hotel on Tuesday evening. Present—Messrs. J. Cork (in the chair), J. Trapp, J. Petty, J. Latta, Adam Warden…

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Agricultural Society

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 14 August 1897 · page 2

A meeting of the committee was held at the Star Hotel on Tuesday evening. Present—Messrs. J. Cork (president), J. Latta, F.W. Cork, W.D. Warden, J. Ree, jun.,…

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Agricultural Society. Wednesday, August 18

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 21 August 1897 · page 1

A meeting of the committee of the above was held in Payten's Commercial Hotel. Present—Messrs. Latta (Vice President, in the chair), C. A. Cork, F. W. Cork, J…

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Kangaroo Valley News. K. V. A. AND H. ASSOCIATION

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 21 August 1897 · page 4

A meeting of the committee of the above was held last Thursday night. A communication was read from the Department of Ag[?]ture [?] society's last…

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Shoalhaven A. and H. ll. Association

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 1 September 1897 · page 2

The ordinary meeting of the above was held yesterday. Mr. R. Ahordeen (president) occupied the chair. A letter was from the Department of…

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