From the Maitland Mercury report:
Failure to act has caused the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Society to miss out on up to $400,000 from the state government to fix the showground grandstand.
The 100-year-old heritage-listed grandstand has been barricaded for more than a year and needs $500,000 of work to make it safe.
Full report by Belinda-Jane Davis available at Maitland Mercury, 11 Jan, 2012.
