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Shows & fairs, 1907

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Manly Carnival. New Figures for 150 Yards

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 5

Although no State Championship figured at the carnival of the Manly Club, held at the local baths, on Saturday afternoon last, the race for the 220yds Championship of the…

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Statistics of the Olympia Show

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 14

Two yearn ago the four-cylinder engine stood in the same petition as that which the six-cylinder occupies to-day. It was advocated as n great improvement on the two-cylinder type in smoothness and quietness of…

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Jubilee of Dapto Show—Some Pioneers of the Show in the Early Days

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 22

Mr. Joseph Ritchie. Mr. James M'Gill. Mr. Thomas F. Hobbs. Mr. William Moles…

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Pastoral. the Show Season of 1907

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 66

Dapto on Wednesday (to-day) inaugurates the show season of 1907. With a few exceptions these annual events have run in the same groove for the last 30 years or more,…

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Sheep at the Royal Easter Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 66

The schedule of the Royal Agriculture Society's Easter Show—March 26 to April has no less than 50 classes devoted to she in addition to which there are 20…

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Champion Rambouillet Ewe at the Illinois State Fair (U.S.A.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 25

This owe is the property of Mr. J. S. Webb, who is reported to have refused a long price for her. She is described as "one of the finest specimens, of the breed seen at a show for a long while."…

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The New Liquor Act. Publican to Show Cause

Evening News · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 6

BATHDRST, Wednesday.— At the local police court this morning, John Mostyn, licensee of the Morning Star Hoel, was fined £10 for selling liquor on Sunday. Mostyn had been…

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Stud, Flock, and Herd. Notes and Comments. the Summer Show Season

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 25

Another summer show season will be inaugurated to-day (January 9), when the Dapto Agricultural and Horticultural Society will hold its annual show on its own grounds, at Dapto…

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The Highland Gathering at the Show Ground, Sydney, on New Year's Day

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 21

Competitors in Costume Dancing Scottish Dances. Competitors in Costume Dancing Irish Dances. Swordsmen from the Japanese Training Ship, Who Gave a Display. The Guard of Honor, Scottish Rifles…

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Manly Orphanage Fair

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 10 January 1907 · page 24
Also in The Catholic Press

In connection with this Fair two meetings of ladies have been recently held in Manly. Two stalls have been allotted. The Refreshment mont stall will be looked after, by the…

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Carnival at Inverell

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 January 1907 · page 8

INVERELL, Wednesday.--The Inverell Swimming Club held a most successful carnival in the M'Intyre River to-day, in the presence of a large attendance. Results: 50yds. race, P. Rowland 1, Don M'Lean 2. Goose chase,…

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The Royal Show

The Catholic Press · Thursday 10 January 1907 · page 12

We have received the Schedule of Prizes for the forthcoming metropolitan Show (Royal Agricultural Society of N.S.W.). We note among the additions…

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A Publican in Trouble. Called on to Show Cause

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 January 1907 · page 6

BATHURST, Wednesday.--John Mostyn, licensee of the Morning Star Hotel, was, at the local police court to-day, fined £10 for selling liquor on Sunday morning. Mostyn is to be…

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Dapto Jubilee Show. Interesting and Imposing. Some Points of Contrast

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 January 1907 · page 7

DAPTO, Wednesday.—The Dapto Agricultural Society celebrated its fiftieth birthday to-day. Although not quite the oldest organisation of its kind on the South Coast, it is the first to run…

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The Dapto Jubilee Show. Opened by the State Governor. a Splendid Display. (From Our Special Reporter.) Dapto

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 January 1907 · page 4

The fiftieth show of the Dapto A. and H. Society was opened to-day under favourable weather conditions. The day was fine, and a breeze made it very enjoyable…

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Show King Classes

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 11

The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society is evidently alive to the necessity of catering for pure-bred stud stock and the changes in the…

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Colonial Fruit Show

The Australian Star · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 7

An excellent show of colonial produce was brought together by the Royal Horticultural Society at their fine new hall in Vincent-square, Westminster, on the 4th and 5th…

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Royal Easter Show

The Australian Star · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 1

The first of the on tries for the Royal Easter Show in Sydney, are due on January, 15. Butler factory managers are reminded by advertisement that entries close on that dale for…

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Royal Easter Show, 1907. the Horse Section

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 11

Schedules for the Royal Agricultural Society's Easter Show, which opens on the 26th March next, are now available. The horse section has evidently…

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