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Shows & fairs, 1909

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Lord Dudley's Engagements. and the Australian Exhibition

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Monday--The manager of the Australian Exhibition, of Australian Manufactures, to be opened in Melbourne on February 1 (Mr. D. Bannerman) to-day made a rejoinder…

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N.s.w. Wines. Exhibition at Challis House

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 4

The N.S.W. Wine Association has arranged with the Intelligence Department to hold a display of bottled wines, grapes, cellar and vineyard requisites, and other matters…

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The Royal Show. Revised Schedule of Prizes

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 4

The prize list for the Royal Show, 1909, has been issued in the usual book form. Several additions have been made to the instructions to exhibitors, and the information to those…

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Build Now! "Building" Inaugurates a Campaign of Construction and a Public Exhibition of Constructional Accessories

Weekly Supplement to Building · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 5

"Building" has inaugurated a campaign of construction. For the past eighteen months "Building" has strenuously advocated increased interest in…

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Jubilee Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 10

At a meeting of the council of the National Association to-day, it was decided that a jubilee exhibition be held this year, to be of a fortnight's duration…

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Exhibition Buildings

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 2

To-night the Exhibtion Building will be reopened, when tie fight fight will be featured. In addition to a number of new pictures, the…

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Tasmanian Carnival

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 51

A carnival on a grand and gigantic scale, promising to eclipse anything of the kind yet held or attempted in the Commonwealth, is to take place at Hobart the capital of the island…

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Tasmanian Carnival, 1910

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 49

It is always gratifying to note an effort to bring the property and beauty of the Commonwealth under the notice of the outer world. It is true that there is an added…

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Exhibition Building—johson Burns Pictures

Referee · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 12

The Exhibition Building in Prince Alfred Park will he re-opened this evening, when the moving pictures showing the training operations of Jack Johnson and Tommy…

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Royal Show Schedule

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 14
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

The prize list for the Royal Show, 1909, has been issued in the usual book form. The prize list totals £4500, and the money appears to be very equitably distributed throughout the…

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The American Show

Referee · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 6

The American automobile show takes place at Madison Squares Gardens, New York, this month, from l6th to 23rd, and will be the first to be held entirely…

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The Australian Buckjumpers' Show

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 5

This combination baring been purchased right out by Mr. Besuard, the well-known rider and horse-buyer, will start immediately on a short tour before visiting Sydney…

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Royal Show District Exhibits

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 9

The retary of the Royal Agricultural Society states that it is now practically certain that five district exhibits will be sent to the next Royal Show, and in all probability there…

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Cycling the Union. Combined Night Carnival

Referee · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 10

Over 200 entries were received for the Sydney-Redfern and Swift Clubs' night carnival on Wednesday, 20th inst. Goulbourn Highland Gathering…

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The Manly Surf Carnival. a Big Programme

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 13

Greal preparations are being made for the Manly Surf Carnival to be held on the Ocean Beach, Manly on the 30th inst. The initial carnival which was successfully engineered at the last year drew to the…

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Thirty Years a Show Secretary

Evening News · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 2

BATHURST, Wednesday.—Mr. W. G. Thompson, son secretary of the Bathurst A., H., and P. Association for 30 years, has resigned, and the appointment of a successor will be…

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Dapto and Its Fifty-Second Annual Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 20

The transformation which has taken place during the last two decades in that part of the Illawrra district known as Dapto is very great to those who knew the locality in the…

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Sporting Review Australian Cricket. the Team for England. Probable Selections. Cheaper Racing. a Dissatisfied Owner. Rosehill and Kensington Meetings. Swimming Championships. the Australasian Carnival. Inter-state Yachting. the Gascoigne Cup. Australian Sculling Championship Cycling and Motoring Notes. Athetics Tennis Bowls,and Sailing the Turf

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 13

Signor and Carrissim, who reached Sydney yesterday are to be Randwick for some weeks to come. Signor the record-breaker, is well known, and of Carissima a New Zealand writer…

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Australasian Championship Carnival

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 January 1909 · page 10

NEW SOUTH WALES WATER POLO TEAM CHOSEN. The following selection has been made in connection with the representative polo match between New South Wales and the rest of Australia, to take place at the…

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