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

Farming & the land, 1920

2,013 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 9 of 101

Australian Wool British Government As Profiteer. Enormous Profits. London

National Advocate · Thursday 29 January 1920 · page 2

Mr. MacKinder, M.P., spooking at Bradford, denounced the profiteering in wool. He declared that the Government had made over £60,000,000…

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Wheat for N.S.W. Mills Big Victorian Consignments Melbourne

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 29 January 1920 · page 2

To-day fifty trucks of wheat are being snot to New South Wales as part being sent to Now South Wales as part to keep the mills working to their…

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Skins and Carcases the Rabbit Trade Surveyed. Farm Labor Scarce

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 29 January 1920 · page 1

Rabbit skins are worth a shilling to eighteen pence each in the Sydney market to-day. Men in the trade expect them to touch half-a-crown in…

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Victorian Tobacco Crop. Melbourne

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 29 January 1920 · page 2

The tobacco crop in Victoria this season will be 100 per cent, greater than last year…

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Farmers' Bitter Complaint. Ill-treated and Robbed at Every Turn. (To the Editor.)

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 29 January 1920 · page 12

Sir,—My business brings me occasionally to Mudgee, and I have never once travelled on the Mudgee line without meeting some…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 29 January 1920 · page 16

The annual meeting of the Mudgee branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association will be held at Mudgee at the Cudgegong Council…

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Floods Destroy Maize Crops

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 29 January 1920 · page 19

Over eight inches of rain have fallen in parts of Gippsland. Serious floods have ensued. The maize crops in North and East…

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Erambie Station Sheep

Molong Argus · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 4

Buyers were in good attendance at last Tuesday's Homebush sheep sales. Auctions were held on that day owiug to Monday being a…

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Wool Profiteering

Molong Argus · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 1

Au extraordinary disclosure of wool profits startled a meeting of the Central Profiteering Committee ing England. Mr Mackinder, a…

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Further Wheat Payment

Molong Argus · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 4

The Commonwealth Government has decided to make a further payment to growers in respect of the 1917-18 and 1918-19 wheat crops…

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A Wool Item

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 7

The revelations respecting wool profits in England are not so much revelations after all. It has long been known that what was paid the primary producer here was nothing like…

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The Wheat Inquiry. Further Arrests

Molong Argus · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 7

The remaining two of the warrants issued last Friday in connection with the Wheat Inquiry were executed on Monday, when Thomas…

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Wheat From Victoria. Melbourne

National Advocate · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 2

Fifty track loads of wheat are being sent to New South Wales being first consignment of 8,000 tons weekly to keep the mills working up to the…

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Wool for Japan. Brisbane

The Bathurst Times · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 2

Three Japanese steamers have been engaged to load cargoes of wool at Brisbane for the east next Monday…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 4

Those Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Minister of Apiculture! and are based mainly on the experience of the Department…

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Wool and the Drought. Profits on Government Wools

Leader · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 7
Also in Molong Argus

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report: The beneficial effects of the recent rains in pastoral centres are evidenced in the number of trucks ordered…

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Wool and the Drought. Profit on Government Wools

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. report:— The beneficial effects of the recent rains in pastoral centres are evinced in the number of trucks…

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Wool Profiteering Greatest Sensation to Come. London

National Advocate · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 2

Mr. MacKinder contends that if the Government does not disclose the wool profits the public should demand a Royal Commission to…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Agricultural. Popularising Oats

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 7

The department's activity in raising varieties suited to the different climatic conditions of the State is not confined to wheat. So the chief inspector of agriculture points…

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