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South Coast · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1906

243 stories in South Coast's papers · page 6 of 13

A Criticism of the Sydney Show. “Not What It Is Cracked Up to Be.”

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 3 May 1906 · page 2

The “Station, Farm, and Dairy” has the following :—The Easter Show at Sydney, like the Ides of March (mentioned in Shakespeare’s “Julius…

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Kangaroo Valley Troubles. Agricultural Society's Election

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 4

A meeting of the committee of the Kangaroo Valley Agricultural. Society was held on Saturday last (reports the " Times.") The chairman (Mr Jos…

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Election Challenged. and Invalidated Shoalhaven Agricultural Society. Alleged Irregular Voting Fresh Ballot to Be Taken

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 4

A special general meeting of the Shoalhaven Agricultural Society was heldy esterday afternoon, at the Nowra School of Arts, to consider certain…

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Bega A. P. and H. Society

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 2

THE annual monthly meeting of the above was held on Saturday afternoon. Present: Messrs. G. P. Kerrison (chair), A. L. Manning,…

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Shoalhaven Agricultural Society. How the Election of Committee was Worked. Startling Disclosures Regarding the Sydney Polling. Election Unanimously Declared Invalid

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 6

A special general meeting of members of the Shoalhaven Agricultural Society was held at the School of Arts, Nowra, on Friday afternoon, to consider alleged…

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Agricultural Society. the Invalid Election. Fresh Ballot to Be Taken. on Saturday, 2Nd June. the Speaker's Opinion

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 4

The awkward position in which the Shoalhaven Agricultural Society found itself as a result of the invalidated annual election was discussed at…

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Home Milking Competition. Sub-committee's Report. To the Committee, Bega A., P. and H. Society

Southern Star · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 5

Gentlemen,— Your sub-committee have the honor to report as follows:— We have held two meetings since being…

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Show Ground Trust

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 16 May 1906 · page 7

A meeting of the Nowra Showground and Recreation Trust was held on Wednesday last, there being present Messrs P. Walsh, H. M'Kenzie, T. Robson, F W Rogers, R…

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Shoalhaven Agricultural Society. Fresh Election of Committee. to Be Held Under Old Rules. on Saturday, June 2Nd

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 16 May 1906 · page 10

Consequent on the upsetting of the election of committee of the Agriculture Society, on the unanimous vote of members owing to the evidence adduced of gross…

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Champion Show. Proposal for the South Coast

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 17 May 1906 · page 2

The president of the Berry Agri. cultural Society (Mr H. D. Morton) has brought nil deck again the South Coast champion show proposal which…

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Agricultural Society's Jubilee

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 8

This year is the jubilee of the Dapto Agricultural Society, and a special effort is to be made by the committee to have the next show excel all others…

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A Fair Exchange

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 2

A man who had purchased some currant buns at a bakery was distressed, on starting to eat one, to find that it contained a fly. Returning to the bakery, he made an indignant…

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The Paris Carnival. Not a Quiet One

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 7

Tuesday's carnival (wrote the Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" on March 2nd) did not pass off quietly. Nearly fifteen hundred bad…

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Agricultural Societies Union. Milk-test Competition. Proposed Champion Show

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 4

A meeting of the Council of the South Coast Agricultural Societies' Union was held at Berry on Wednesday last at the School of Arts. The…

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The Buckjumping Show

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 23 May 1906 · page 2

On Saturday night about 250 people attended at the Central Running Grounds to witness a buckjumping show, under the…

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South Coast District Show. Proposal of Berry Association

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 May 1906 · page 3

At a meeting of the South Coast Agricultural Societies' Union, held at Berry on Thursday afternoon, the question of holding a combined show of various South Coast…

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Shoalhaven Agricultural Society. Committee's Bdecislon in Hold Election under Old Rules Rescinded. Legal Opinion Unanimously the Favor of election Fixed far. Half the Guarantors no up for

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 30 May 1906 · page 6

A well attended meeting of the committee of the Shoalhaven Agricultural Society was held at the School of Arts, Nowra, yesterday afternoon, under the…

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Fresh Election. the Agricultural Society a Resolution Rescinded. Further Legal Opinion. a Compromise

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 31 May 1906 · page 2

A meeting of committeemen of the Shoal haven Agricultural Society, convened by Mr Noakes in response to a requisition, was held yesterday for the…

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Alleged Offer of Bribes, to a Show Judge

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 31 May 1906 · page 4

Previous to the annual meeting of the Bangalow Agricultural Society on Tuesday last, the- retiring committee held a meeting „t which a matter,…

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A Fair Exchange

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 1 June 1906 · page 6

A man who bad purchased some currant buns at a bakery was distressed, on starting to cat one, to find that It contained a fly. Returning to the bakery, be made an indignant…

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