East and South Devon Advertiser: Saturday 1st August 1874

Devon County Agricultural Association: An adjourned meeting was held at the Town Hall in this town, on Wednesday, for the purpose of receiving the report of the committee, Messrs. D. R. Scratton and E. Ford, who had been deputed to wait on the Council of the above Association to invite them to hold their meeting for 1876 at Newt Abbot … … The following committee, with power to add to their number, were then appointed to canvas for subscriptions, and make the necessary preliminary arrangements for holding the exhibition: Messrs. W. J. Watt, T. Wills, Captain Cornish-Bowden, E. Cumming … John Pinsent … (and others) …

[see also Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 3rd August 1877]


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