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South Coast · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1904

299 stories in South Coast's papers · page 2 of 15

The Value of the Side Show

Southern Star · Wednesday 20 January 1904 · page 4

THOUGH husbandmen and agriculturists may regard all side-shows at our annual agricultural exhibitions as worse than useless, they…

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Shoalhaven Agricultural Society

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 21 January 1904 · page 2

A meeting of the committee was help yesterday attended by Messrs R. Aberdeen (president) W. Watts, John Monaghan D. Hyam Weston Noakes, James Watts John…

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Wollongong Show

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 21 January 1904 · page 2

Mr G. W. Fuller, M.P., is to open the show on Friday (the second day), 29th January. The Illawarra District Hind will piny selections on the lawn…

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Kiama Show

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 2

" Visitors to Kiama Show may procure an excellent lunchenn at,the tent in aid of the Kiama Cottage Hospital and assist a worthy institution. Cold meats (ham, tongue, etc)…

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Albion Park Show

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 2
Also in The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer

In the milking Shorthorn class at the Albion Park show, Mr J. W.. Cole almost swept the board, taking all the leading awards Great interest centred in the bull…

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The Wollongong Show

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 4

The annual show of the Wollongong A.H. and I. Association will open on Thursday next, January 28, and continue on Friday lead Saturday…

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A Baillana show

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 4

The Following advt. is from the R.R. 'Times" :-On view in Ballina, the heaviest young lady ever born in Australia. Weighs 29st.(406lbs)…

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Eden Exhibition Society. (To the Editor)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1904 · page 2

Sir,—Being a very- busy [?] having no one to write my [?] not afford much time to reply [?] the wisp. It is not true [?]…

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Show Catalogues

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 27 January 1904 · page 10

" Talpa," in the Australasian, referring to the Dapto show, says:— "Why this society, and others that could be mentioned, do not issue a properly-prepared catalogue passes…

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Albion Park Show

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 27 January 1904 · page 4

The seventeenth annual show of the Albion Park A. H. and I. Association, which was opened on Wednesday last and continued on Thursday, proved to be the best show yet…

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A Monster Carnival

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 2

We have received a monster placard, in part lithograph, announcing a monster sports caruival to be held at Lake Roto[?], New Zealand, from 23rd to 28th February. A…

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Kiama Show

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 2

THE following are amongst the prizewinners at the Kiama show held on Tuesday and Wednesday last: -Durham : Yealing heifer, Dr Hay I…

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Show Fixtures

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 4

THE following are the dates of the forth-coming South Coast shows :— Wollongong, January 28, 29, and 30, 1904. Berry, February 3,4 and 5, 1904…

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Show Fixtures

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 2

THE following are the dates of the forthcoming South Coast shows:— Wollongong, January 28, 29, and 30, 1904. Berry, February 3, 4, and 5, 1904…

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The Berry Show

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 2

THE twenty-first annual exhibition of the Berry Agricultural Association is to be opened on Wednesday next, and continued on Thursday and Friday, The coming show…

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The Islington Cattle Show

Southern Star · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 4

EMILY Soldene visited the recent cattle show in London, and thus describes her impressions of "The best boost in the show" and other things:—…

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Eden Exhibition Society. (To the Editor.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 3

Sir, The Correspondence lately occuring in your columns must be now becoming [?]some and distasteful to your general readers, therefore 1 will ask you for…

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In Fashion’s Realm. Up-to-date Notes of Interest to the Fair Sex with Illustrations of What Is Being Work This Season

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 4

A very interesting opinion is that of a costumier who discusses the alterations which have taken place in the female form divine. At one time…

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The Berry Show

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 2

Arrangements are well ordered for the annual exhibition of the Berry Agricultural Association, opening to-day. Large numbers of entries have…

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