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Shows & fairs, 1908

147 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 8

Martini's Buckjumping Show

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1908 · page 11

Martini's buckjumping show did good business in Nowra during a three nights' stay. There are plenty of bucking horses, and wire-walking, trick bicycle riding, and…

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Shoalhaven Show

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 4

The Shoalhaven Agricultural Society's Committee will on Tuesday next consider an important proposal submitted by the…

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BEGA A. P. and H. SOCIETY

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 2

The committee of the above Society met on Saturday. Present; Messrs. G. P. Kerrison (chair) A. L. Manning, H…

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Shoalhaven Agricultural society

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 11

At a meeting of the Shoalhaven Agricultural Society's committee, yesterday afternoon, the secretary (Mr W Randall) asked to be relieved temporarily of the duties of…

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Kiama Agricultural Society. Private Bar Abolished

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 8

At a committee meeting of the above Society on Tuesday (states the "Reporter") the President and Mr. G. Grey were appointed judges of the…

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A Buck-jumping Show. Dissatisfied Crowd Rushes the Ground. Adelaide, Saturday Night

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 3

Twenty thousand people attended Skuthorp's buckjumping contest on the Jubilee Oval this afternoon, but were disappointed with the character…

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Ulladulla A. & H. Association. Show Postponed Till April 1 & 2

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 5

The Committee met on Monday night, at Cambourn's Hotel. Present—F. W. Cork (president) in the chair; and Messrs. J. Ree, R. Miller, Dr. Young, Adam Warden, C. F.,…

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Wollongong Show

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 4

The Wollongong Show, perhaps one of the most interesting and certainly one of the most progressive and up-to-date shows in the Commonwealth, is set down for…

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Kiama ShoW

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 1

Kiama show ranks as one of the best on the Coast. In cattle and horses it has no superior, while in pavilion exhibits it can always hold its own with others along the…

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Kiama Show

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 29 January 1908 · page 2

Notwithstanding the severe drought conditions prevailing, the Kiama show Mas a very creditable event, and showed what the district was capable of under most adverse…

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Carnival Week. Efforts of Wollongong Progressives

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1908 · page 4

The live men of Wollongong, headed by Secretary Beatson, have set a programme for next week which should attract big numbers…

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The Shoeing of Show Horses

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1908 · page 7

Most exhibitors are aware that in the exhibition of highly-bred show horses there is nearly as much in the art of training as in the natural propensity of…

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The Olympic Motor Show. Opened by the Duke of Connaught

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1908 · page 3

The opening of the Motor Show' at Olympia this morning ( llth November) by the Duke of Connaught was a purely informal affair, and there were no…

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The Shoeing of Show House

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 5 February 1908 · page 5

Most exhibitors are aware that in the exhibtion of highly-bred show horses there is nearly as much in the art of training as in the natural propensity of…

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Shoalkaven A. & H. Society. Next Week's Show

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 5 February 1908 · page 12

The Shoalhaven Agricultural Society's 34th annual exhibition will be held on Wednesday and Thursday next, and despite the unprecedented drought of the past seven months,…

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The Shoeing of Show Horses

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 7 February 1908 · page 5

MOST exhibitors are aware that in the exhibition of highly-bred show nurses there is nearly as much In the art of training as in the natural propensity of…

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Show Nights

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1908 · page 4

Mr. Bert Howarde, with his well-known company, will play in. the Nowra School of Arts on show nights (next Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 12 and 13)…

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Shoalhaven Show

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1908 · page 4

Work in the preparations for the Shoalhaven Agricultural Show, to be held on Wednesday and Thursday next, is well advanced, and the…

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Bega A. P. and H. Society

The Bega Budget · Saturday 8 February 1908 · page 4

THE monthly meeting of the committee of the above was held on Saturday lust, when the following were present: Messrs. G. P…

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A Real Agricultural Fair

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 February 1908 · page 4

Down in Vermont, United States, a few weeks ago, twenty-three thousand persons paid fifty cents—about two shillings—each to see a country fair…

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