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Shows & fairs, 1911

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New Buildings at the Show Ground

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 11

THE CORONATION STAND, WHICH IS BEING COMPLETED, WILL ACCOMMODATE 4000 PERSONS. ON THE RIGHT OF THE PICTURE ARE THE SOCIETY S NEW OFFICES. FRONT VIEW OF THE NEW OFFICES FOR THE SECRETARY AND HIS STAFF AT THE SHOW GROUND…

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The Big Show. a Record Exposition Promised

The Sun · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 7

This week all roads to Showland, that humming rendezvous of national industry where once a year the great producing and manufacturing interests of the premier Australian…

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Camden Show Treasurer. Quarter Contury of Service

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 5

At the Camden show last week the president, Major A. J. Thompson, and the committee of the society, together with lady friends, met to take leave of…

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Commonwealth Tobacco and Sugar. "Fair Wages, Prices, Profits:" Mr. Webster Is Ingenious

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 12

PARKES,Thursday.—Last night Mr. Webster M. H. R. spoke to a very thin audience here in support of the referenda proposals. Their object, be said, was to obtain fair wages for the…

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The Royal Show. Over £15,000 Expended, in Improvements at the Show Ground. Secretary Looks for Records

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 11

Those days Mr. H. M. Somer, the popular secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society, is a very busy man. With the Royal Show opening on Tuesday next he naturally is working at high…

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Outback in Scotland. a Country Fair. and Some Rough Riding. Chapter IV

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 3

For several weeks Bill and Jim rode hither and thither in a country fairer than they had ever imagined in their dreams, and grassed and watered as…

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Features of the Royal Show. a Magnificent Display

The Land · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 2

One of the most attractive departments of the Royal Show next week will be the agricultural pavilion. Two magnificent district exhibits are…

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The Moving Picture Show The King Goes into Training

The Sun · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 6

People who fancy that a King has an easy job should have received an eyr-opener in reading the cable which announced the fact that his Majesty was going into, training for…

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Anglo-japanese Treaty. Some of the Stipulations. Candour and Fair Play Statutory Tariff Reduced by One-third

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday—The Anglo- Japanese commercial treaty generally reduces the ditties, of the statutory tariff by one-third…

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At-choo! Sneezing Epidemic in a Theatre. Practical Joke Breaks Up a Show. New York

The Sun · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 1

While the select Four Hundred were enjoying the opera at the Metropolitan yesterday evening some malicious person scattered a "sneeze" powder amongst the orchestra…

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Stage Song and Show the Pantomime Season. "The Woman in the Case." Adelphi Theatre. Vaudeville and Picture Programmes

The Sun · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 2

The plan for the opening, on Saturday evening of the great pantomime production "Jack and the Beanstalk" is now open at Paling's. The new extravaganza, the fifth…

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Albury P. A. and H. Society. Recent Resolution Deprecated

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 15

ALBURY, Friday. -- At the annual meeting of the Albury branch of the Political Labor League of New South Wales, at the "Town-hall, last night, reference was made to the action of…

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All Nations' Fair

The St George Call · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 5

The countless ladies who have devoted many weeks of cheerful and self-sacrificing labour to the noble task of raising a sum of £5000 for the extension of the…

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All Nations' Fair. Record Attendance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 16

The largest crowd that has yet visited the All Nations' Fair was there yesterday, the attendance in the evening being particularly large. The main hall, the gallery, ant[?]-rooms,…

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"Fair Cussedness." Ryde Council Angry

The Sun · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 8

Ryde Council was angry the other night over a letter from the Chief Railway Commissioner, replying to a communication from the council asking for a 20-minutes' tram…

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The Passing Show

The International Socialist · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 1

"IT ought to have been £10," said the ironmaster, across the Courthouse table at Lithgow, when the blast furnace men were bludgeoned with a fine that ran close to £5…

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Benefit Picture Show

The St George Call · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 4

There was a good attendance at the Kogarah Picture Palace on Thursday evening last, when a fine programme of selected pictures were put through. The…

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Art Society Show

Evening News · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 5

During the past week the Royal Art Society's exhibition of cabinet pictures has, in spite of many attractions [?] continued to be well attended. Those who have not yet…

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Stock for the Show

The Sun · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 4

The Huddart, Parker steamer Victoria, in from Auckland and other New Zealand ports this morning brought 100 sheep and 36 horses for the show…

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The Great Fair. All Nations in Town-hall

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 17

As was to be expected, there was an enormous gathering at the Town-hall, last night, the third evening of the great fair in aid of the fund for the extension of the Nurses' Home…

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