Devon County Agricultural Show: The Newton Show: the great exhibition has come and gone. For the third time the Devon County Agricultural Association has honoured Newton Abbot by holding its annual exhibition in the town, with highly satisfactory results on each occasion. … (description of previous events) … The local arrangements were admirably carried out by the following Committee: … (includes) … W. S. Pinsent … Opening Ceremony: Mr. Lewis Barne, J.P., Chairman of the Newton Abbot District council, briefly welcomed the President and members of the Association, and called upon Mr. W. S. Pinsent, Chairman of the Highweek Parish Council to present Lord Clifford with an address of welcome, the yard being in the parish of Highweek. Mr. Pinsent read an address, signed by the Chairmen of the respective Councils. It offered to Lord Clifford and the members of the Association the heartiest welcome of the townspeople on this third visit to the town, and trusted that the meeting would be successful in every way, and would be of assistance to those who were interested in agricultural pursuits … (continues) … … Lord Clifford, on behalf of the Council of the Association, thanked Mr. Bearne and Mr. Pinsent, as Chairmen of their respective Councils, for the cordial welcome given to the Association that day. They had provided the Association with a Show yard rich in point of beauty and picturesqueness, which he thought, left nothing to be desired. If, as Mr. Pinsent had said, Nature had not made it as level for their purposes as they might desire, they must remember that it was to this extreme want of level ground that their county owed much of that picturesque beauty which had made it deservedly famous (applause).
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GRO0911 Devonport: William Swain Pinsent: 1843 – 1920