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Shows & fairs, 1916

2,886 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 145

Recruiting. Fair Enlistment at the Barracks. Other Depots

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 6

Yesterday's response to the appeal for recruits at Victoria Barracks was fairly successful 91 men enlisted, and of these 73 were accepted for service. The draft to camp for the…

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Sydney Show. Increased Prize List

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 5

The council of the R.A.S. has very pluckily increased the total of the prize-money for the Royal Show, to be held next Easter, and has also added a few…

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The Passing Show Killed at Funeral

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 4

Advice has been received that Rev. J. R. Stewart, who was well known in Sydney, was killed through the explosion of a shell while conducting a…

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Producers Revolt Against Fixed Prices Tamworth Farmers Demand Fair Play

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 5

What may be destined to become a very far-reaching movement, and one of great benefit to the producing classes, was inaugurated at a largely attended meeting…

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The Moving Picture- Show Sermon on Work

The Sun · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 4

Dr. Archibald Grubb says it again:-- Carpenters during December in Sydney, working a lot of overtime on the transports, are said to have earned from £7 to £9 per…

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Show Date Alterations. Macleay A. H. and I. Association

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 3

The secretary of the above association has advised us that owing to the continued dry weather, the committee have decided to postpone the show from…

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Horse Talk Hints to Young Show Judges. Chapter Xii. Draught Mares

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 5

In the judging of Clydesdale and Shire mares little instruction is needed, since I have dealt fully with the points of the stallions of these two breeds…

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Manly Carnival

The Sun · Wednesday 26 January 1916 · page 5

Manly is having a great holiday this afternoon. The reserves and beaches are crowded. Carnival proceedings opened with a surf- board and surf- shooting exhibition. The…

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The Venetian Carnival

Referee · Wednesday 26 January 1916 · page 10

The Venetian Carnival, which commences at Manly to-day, and concludes next Saturday, is deserving of all support because it is in aid of the Manly Cottage Hospital. On Saturday next…

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Manly's Big Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1916 · page 9

Manly's annnal carnival will commence to-day, and will be continued till Saturday, concluding with the grand venetian carnival at night. There have been so many calls on the…

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Albion Park Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 January 1916 · page 9

The 28th annual show of the Albion Park Association was held on January 19 and 20 in fine weather. There was a good attendance and the exhibits. though less numerous than in…

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Sydney Royal Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 January 1916 · page 9

The council of the R.A.S. has very pluckily increased the total of the prize money for the Royal Show to be held next Easter, and has also ridded a few important classes. Prize money…

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The Kiama Show

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 January 1916 · page 13

KIAMA, Tuesday. -- Entries for the Kiama Show to-morrow promise one of the finest exhibitions of dairy cattle seen in the State, as the classes are well filled, and all the old…

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Hospital Carnival Police and Firemen's Effort

The Sun · Wednesday 26 January 1916 · page 2

Some idea of how the hospital carnival and art union of the Police and Fire Brigades to raise £10,000 for our hospitals is going may be had from the fact that just on one…

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Relief Map of New South Wales. Model on Exhibition

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 January 1916 · page 10

A copy of the relief man of New South Wales, prepared at the Department of Lands, Sydney, for the Panama Exposition, at which it won a silver medal, is on exhibition in the window at…

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Fire at Country Show Ground. Forbes

Evening News · Wednesday 26 January 1916 · page 5

Between 6 and 7 O'clock best evening, a tre[?]red at the Forbes Show Ground. The industrial wall and poultry shed were completety destroyed. They were [?]sured for [?]and…

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The Moving Picture- Show The War Spreading

The Sun · Wednesday 26 January 1916 · page 4

This column suggested the other day that now that the real war had begun-- the mighty Wado- Holman struggle-- all the belligerents in the sham fight progressing in Europe…

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Soldiers and the Land. What the Cards Show

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 January 1916 · page 8

The cards circulated by the Defence Department amongst soldiers enlisting in Australia, with a view to ascertaining, inter alia, the number desiring to settle on the land after the…

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Carnival at Manly. Crowds of Visitors

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 8

Manly celebrated Anniversary Day with the opening of its annual Venetian Carnival. Great crowds of visitors were carried from the Sydney-side during the afternoon and In the…

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Manly Awhirl. Opening of Venetian Carnival

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 6

The holiday spirit was abundantly in evidence at Manly last evening, on the occasion of the opening of the Venetian carnival. During the afternoon there bad been exhibitions in the…

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