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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

2,941 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 8 of 148

Wheat for New Zealand. Difficulty Being Settled. Melbourne

The Bathurst Times · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 4

The Commonwealth Government has been requested by the New Zealand Government to permit 100,000 bushels of wheat lent by New South Wales to be…

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Farming

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 1

Several of the farmers are well on with the ploughing. This is about the first time the farmers have begun turning over the land at this…

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Pilliga Scrub Farms. Land - Seekers Poor Response

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 2

Only 36 applications have been received for 46 home[?] farm blocks of. Pilliga Scrub, within [?] miles of Baradine. It is completed that…

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Sheep and Cattle Trucks

Leader · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

Thursday next will be a busy day at the railway goods yards, when 25 trucks of sheep—to carry a number in the vicinity of 2000 head—are to be…

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Straying Cattle

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

Three fines were imposed at the Bathurst Summons Court yesterday as the result of prosecutions by Robert Evans, Sanitary Inspector. Langar Gornall…

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Horses and Cattle at Large

National Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

At the Police Court yesterday morning before Mr. C. Jennings, P.M., Augar Gornall was fined 25s and [?] costs for allowing three cows and two…

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Wheat in Melbourne. Melbourne

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 4

A considerable rise occurred in the wheat market last week the price rose from 6[?] There is a prospect of a further rise…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Leader · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 3

Messrs Harrison, Jones and Devlin report:—We submitted at auction today 1832 bales, to splendid competition. Free wools sold readily at 7½…

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Sydney Wool Sales Splendid Competition. Sydney

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

The 1915 wool sales opened at the Royal Exchange this afternoon, when 6081 bales were catalogued. There was a attendance of buyers, and the…

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War and Trade the Man on the Land. Cattle-man Doing Well

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 4

"There can he no question that the war has had a decided effect upon trade," said Mr. F. E. Winchcombe, president of the Chamber of Commerce…

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Wheat for New Zealand the Kaipoi's Consignment. Matter Adjusted. Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

The difficulty, arising out of the consignment of New South Wales Wheat Board by the steamer Kaipoi, destined for New Zealand, appears to…

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For the Man on the Land Agricultural. Wheat Production. Its Possible Expansion in Australia

National Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 1

The suggestion that in anticipation of high prices for the next year or two, the season of 1915 should witness an extension of the area devoted to wheat…

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Reject Wheat

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 2

Tho Wheat Board has decided that country millers may sell wheat wh[?] is really unfit for milling for chickwheat purposes at the rate of not more than…

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Cattle Stealing At YANTABULLA

Leader · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 4

Away out at Yantabulla, 80 miles, beyond Bourke, three men (George Rushson, junr., John Henry Gaffney, and William Gaffney) was charged…

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Farmers and Settlers and Wheat Cases. Sydney

Leader · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 3

The interstate commission sat today in connection with the wheat case, and ruled that it has power to join the N.S.W. Farmers and Settlers'…

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Wool Market Up

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 3

There was a better market for wool in Sydney on Monday, and under more general competition prices were well above December, medium wools often reviving to the extent of…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Leader · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 2
Also in National Advocate, The Bathurst Times

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., reports of the Sydney wool sales to-day that prices were good. Free merino and crossbred were five to ten per cent…

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Britain's Wheat. Will the Government Act? London

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 4

The British Labor Party National Committee is strenuously urging the Government to purchase all wheat in Britain and sell it at current market…

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