OLD ENGLISH FAIR

Grey River Argus, 21 October 1915, Page 5

OLD ENGLISH FAIR

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, DRILL yitED. His Worship the Mayor at the Drill Shed, to-morrow at 2 p.m., will open the Great Old English Fair, in aid of our Wounded Soldiers' Fund, through No. .1 Group. After the official opening the sale of some hundreds of pouuds Avprtli of stock will be conducted at the rear of the building. This will be a boua-fidc sale at market rates and includes a splendid entry, consisting of fat' sheep, ewes and lambs, vealevs, cattle, pigs, ducks, geese, fowl, Und produce, kindly douated by farmers and settlers of the Grey ValleyOtirn Lino, and Coal Creek, etc. As this is a great patriotic, salcj the proceeds in aid of the wounded soldiers, we hope to see a good attendance of farmers, butchers and others at the salc^ and keen, competition for all lines. The fair will cater for the amusement of old and' young, and will be the fair of its kind ever held in Greymouth. Stalls: — Tea Rooms, Ice Cream, Produce, Flowers, Xmas Tree, Shooting Gallery, Children's Stall, Sweets Stall, Fortune Toiling, Wireless Telegraph, Sheep Weight-guessing Competition/, Greasy Pole, Bran Tub, Mysterious Room, Side Shows, Sketch Artists, also a special Minstrel Troupe.; will be in attendance. This will be no skeleton stall business, but they Avill be groaning with the weight of .their respective produced Gifts from merchants all over the Dominion include all kinds of articles, such -us gentlemen's overcoats, rugs, motor tyres, 15 cases preserves, Gdoz. brooms, 5 cases sheep tongues, piclcles, preserved milk, flour, and'hundrcd of other donations too numerous to mention, running into' some hun : dreds of ppunQs. All those in search of bargains will do AveM to be present and help the noble cause by giving goodprices. Friday and Saturday will be' red-letter days in the histoTy of Greymouth, -when No. 1 Group will, malce^ things hum. The admission- is free. . ■

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