Food and Industry. Increased Crops Releases Shipping. (Reuter's Message.) London
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 8 August 1917 · page 4
In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. R. E. Prothero, one of the shipping controllers, stated that about a million acres had been added to the land…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Board Appointment. Adelaide
Barrier Miner · Thursday 9 August 1917 · page 8
Mr. Clement Giles has been elected farmers' representative on the Wheat Board by a large majority…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat and Flour Declared "Black."
Barrier Miner · Sunday 12 August 1917 · page 1
Wheat and flour arriving by train, also goods, merchandise, and luggage arriving by rail or sea, have been declared "black" by the strikers, who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In the United States. Government Purchase of Wheat. Whole Harvest to Be Taken Over. (Reuter's Message.) Washington
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 August 1917 · page 2
The Government announces sweeping plans for the control of food prices including the fixing of the price of wheat to prevent speculation, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Skeleton Wheat Sheds. Adelaide
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 August 1917 · page 5
The Government is said to have material enough to erect 80 skeleton sheds in South Australia for the storage of wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Outbreak of Pleuro. Among Travelling Cattle. Adelaide
Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 August 1917 · page 2
A serious outbreak of pleuro has taken place in the north among large travelling mobs of cattle from Hookina, Black Rock, Yudnapinna, Ucolta, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Stacking Proceeding. Melbourne
Barrier Miner · Friday 17 August 1917 · page 4
Wheat stacking is proceeding satisfactorily at Brooklyn…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Season's Wool. Adelaide
Barrier Miner · Friday 17 August 1917 · page 4
The first loads of the new season's wool arrived at Yunta yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Reported Meat Combine. Government Control of Cattle Advocated. Melbourne
Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 August 1917 · page 6
At the sitting of the Interstate Commission in Melbourne yesterday the Chief Commissioner said that nothing had been disclosed of the existence of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter Ration in Austria Reduced. (Reuter's Message.) London
Barrier Miner · Saturday 25 August 1917 · page 4
Reuter's Zurich carrespondent telegraphs that a Vienna official procla[?]tion has reduced the butter ration to one ounce per person weekly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Queensland. Northern Railway Strikers. Government Issues an Ultimatum. Men Given Until Tuesday. the Atherton Farmers' Threat. Brisbane
Barrier Miner · Sunday 26 August 1917 · page 1
At a special meeting of the Cabinet yesterday[?] it was decided to issue [?] ultimatum to the northern railway strikers to resume work by Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shipping for Australian Wheat. (United Service Message.) London
Barrier Miner · Monday 27 August 1917 · page 4
The Liverpool corntraders have advised Mr. W. A. Holman that they have carried a resolution urging the Government to provide tonnage to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Queensland. Northern Railway Strikers. Government Issues an Ultimatum. Men Given Until Tuesday[?] the Atherton Farmers Threat. Brisbane
Barrier Miner · Monday 27 August 1917 · page 1
At a special meeting of the Cabinet yesterday, it was decided to issue an ultimatum to the northern railway strikers to resume work by Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On the Western Front. Guillemont Farm Attacked. Still in Possession of the British. Advance Near Lens. (Reuter's Message.) London
Barrier Miner · Monday 27 August 1917 · page 2
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:— "Early this morning the enemy heavily bombarded our positions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State's Heavy Apple Crop. Adelaide
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 29 August 1917 · page 5
A conference of fruit growers next month will give consideration to the disposal of the expected heavy crop of apples in the State this season…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Port Pirie. No Work on Wharves or Wheat Stacks. a Government Offer. Adelaide
Barrier Miner · Friday 31 August 1917 · page 2
Information was received in Adelaide yesterday morning that a strike had occurred at Port Pirie. No work was done yesterday on the wharves or at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHEAT 9/2 Per Bushel. (Reuter's Message.) Washington
Barrier Miner · Saturday 1 September 1917 · page 4
The price of the best spring wheat has been fixed at 220 cents (9/2) per bushel for the 1917 crop…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Affairs in Britain. Fixing Butter Prices. Limiting Profits. (Reuter's Message.) London
Barrier Miner · Sunday 2 September 1917 · page 1
The Food Controller (Lord Rhondda) has ordered that after September 3 no butter must be sold by importer or maker above the fixed maximum price…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral Trouble Over. Brisbane
Barrier Miner · Monday 3 September 1917 · page 3
The pastoral trouble is now over. General shearing under award conditions will commence at Charleville. Shearers and roustabouts are difficult…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Strikes. Mediation Proposals in Sydney. to Be Re-cast by Lord Mayor. Work Proceeding at Some Collieries. Demonstration in Melbourn. Fighting Message From New South Wales Strikers. Pastoral Trouble in Queensland. Settled. Wharfmen at Port Pirie Refuse to Unload Coal. in New South Wales. the Mediation Proposlas. to Be Recast. Sydney
Barrier Miner · Monday 3 September 1917 · page 2
The Lord Mayor of Sydney said last night that his mediation proposals came so near those of the Government that their rejection by the Cabinet had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →