Adelaide - Picnics and Holidays
A linen drapers' picnic is reported in the Register,
10 November 1859, page 3d,
Observer,
12 November 1859, page 2h,
a Foresters' picnic in the Express,
29 March 1864, page 3b,
an Oddfellows' picnic on
4 January 1865, page 3b,
Register,
2 January 1867, page 3d.
D. & W. Murray's picnic is reported in the Express,
10 November 1871, page 3c.
Suggested holiday excursions to the near environs are described in the Register,
23 December 1879, page 6a.
The first cabmen's picnic was held at Oaklands and is reported in the Register,
24 February 1888, page 6g.
The first butchers' picnic is reported in the Register,
5 November 1880, page 6d; also see
Express,
2 October 1882, page 3f,
9 October 1885, page 4a,
Register,
12 October 1883, page 6e,
24 October 1884, page 7a,
8 October 1886, page 6h,
5 October 1888, page 3h,
4 October 1889, page 7h:
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Of course larrikins were present in strong force, but beyond two or three scrimmages
or free fights there was nothing to complain of...
Also see Register,
3 October 1890, page 3c,
Chronicle,
10 October 1891, page 22g,
Express,
5 October 1894, page 3d,
9 November 1894, page 3f,
5 October 1900, page 2g.
A change of venue for the butchers' picnic is reported in the Advertiser,
4 October 1912, page 15f.
Sketches are in the Pictorial Australian in
November 1885, page 197,
November 1886, page 173.
A licensed victuallers' picnic is reported in the Register,
11 March 1881, page 5c,
4 April 1884, page 6g.
A draymen's picnic is reported in the Express,
29 December 1882, page 2g.
A saddlers' picnic is reported in the Chronicle,
3 January 1885, page 8c.
J.H. Sherring & Co's picnic is reported in the Express,
23 February 1886, page 3c,
of bootmakers on
25 February 1890, page 4a,
1 March 1892, page 4c,
21 February 1893, page 3g,
of grocers' assistants on
18 February 1892, page 4c,
of a tobacco twisters' on
11 March 1893, page 5e,
of carters on
25 October 1893, page 4d,
26 October 1894, page 4b,
30 October 1896, page 4d,
of a firewood merchants' on
15 March 1894, page 3f.
The inaugural grocers' picnic is reported in the Observer,
20 February 1892, page 32d; also see
Express,
22 February 1894, page 4c,
14 February 1895, page 3f,
13 October 1899, page 4d,
24 October 1902, page 2d,
Register,
23 October 1903, page 3a,
18 October 1907, page 8d;
photographs are in the Observer,
29 October 1904, page 23.
A fishermen and fishmongers' picnic is reported in the Register,
20 November 1894, page 7f; also see
Advertiser,
19 November 1895, page 7b.
The first bakers' picnic on Mr Ragless' property at Tonsley Park is reported
in the Register,
7 March 1895, page 3h; also see
Express,
5 March 1896, page 4c,
10 March 1898, page 4a.
A dairymen's picnic at Kensington is reported in the Observer,
10 October 1896, page 30b,
Register,
9 October 1896, page 6g,
Advertiser,
4 November 1909, page 8c.
A dairymen's picnic is reported in the Register,
10 October 1907, page 6f,
3 November 1910, page 5g.
A builders and contractors picnic is reported in the Register,
30 November 1896, page 3h.
Holden and Frost's first picnic is reported in the Register,
16 March 1897, page 3g.
A Liquor Trades employees' picnic is reported in the Express,
25 March 1897, page 3c,
23 March 1899, page 2g,
of Detmold's Ltd on
26 October 1898, page 2e.
A Globe Timber Mill's picnic is reported in the Register,
29 November 1897, page 3i,
of Henry Berry and Company on 22 March 1898, page 6g.
W. Detmold & Co's picnic is reported in the Register,
26 October 1898, page 7e.
An Insurance Clerks' picnic is reported in the Register,
24 February 1900, page 10i.
D. & J. Fowler & Co's picnic is reported in the Register,
26 August 1901, page 3h.
"Picnic Pleasures" is in the Advertiser,
31 December 1901, page 4c,
4 November 1903, page 4d,
"Picnics" on
30 October 1911, page 8c.
A report on a building trades picnic is in The Herald,
7 December 1907, page 8b.
A barbers' picnic is reported in the Register,
19 March 1908, page 3e,
a hairdressers and tobacconists on
11 March 1909, page 7c,
Advertiser on
24 February 1910, page 7c.
A photograph of some members is in The Critic,
2 March 1910, page 8.
A hardware assistants' picnic is reported in the Register,
26 April 1909, page 9g,
a chaff merchants picnic on
21 October 1909, page 8e,
a fuel merchants' picnic on
27 November 1909, page 11d.
A Hairdressers and Tobacconists picnic is reported in the Register,
24 February 1910, page 7c.
Clutterbuck Brothers picnic is reported in the Register,
19 April 1920, page 3h,
of F.H. Faulding & Co. on
27 September 1922, page 11g.
"Pioneers of Our Picnics" is in the Advertiser,
11 April 1936, page 14f.
