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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

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Writ Threatened Mr. Bruce Walker's Outburst Depends Hawkesbury Dairymen

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 4

DURING a discussion on the Milk Bill in the Legislative Assembly just prior to the Christmas vacation, Mr. R. Bruce Walker told…

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Scheyville Training Farm New Building Opened Dreadnought Scheme Expanding

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 1

SINCE the Dreadnought scheme originated 8,000 boys have come to, Australia, and 4,500 of them have been trained in farm work at the…

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Dairy Produce Hawkesbury College Course

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 10

The special course in dairy produce manufacture, which was inaugurated at Hawkesbury College last January is to be repeated this year and will commence on the…

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Dominion Farmers Visit to Hawkesbury College Inefficient Black Labor

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 11

The delegation of South African farmers who visited the Hawkesbury Agricultural College at Richmond last week, were keenly interested in the dairy herd which is one…

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Airman Killed Another Flier Injured Car Overturns on Windsor-road Tried to Avoid Flock of Sheep

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 5

SWERVING to avoid a flock of sheep on the Windsor-road, near Rouse Hill at 7.25 a.m. on Thursday of last week, Aircraftsman…

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Historic Hawkesbury Farms 132 Years in One Family Now to Be Sold

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 2

ON the 19th day of November, 1704, His Honor, Francis Grose (who succeeded Governor Phillip) and who was Lieutenant-Governor in this colony, granted to William…

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Webb's Creek Dairy Scheme

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 14 March 1930 · page 9

The factory looks like closing down, In a year or little more; For Mollet's done the "cockies" brown And now they're mighty sore…

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Property Sales Hawkesbury Farms Change Hands

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 March 1930 · page 6

MESSRS. J. B. Johnston and Co., auctioneers, of Windsor, conducted a successful sale on Saturday last when five Hawkesbury properties were submitted and three…

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£135 an Acre Record Price for Hawkesbury Farms

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 March 1930 · page 3

RECORD) prices for the Hawkesbury district were obtained for two historic farms, for over 100 years the property of the Fitzgerald family, which were sold at…

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Webb's Creek Dairy Scheme Public Apology

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 March 1930 · page 3

IN our issue of the 14th instant, some poetry was published under the name of "Wanderer." This was inserted by one of the members of the Staff without the Editor's knowledge and during his absence, and his attention has only recently been called to the same. We regret very sincerely its publication…

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Historic Farms Sold 132 Years in One Family Grant at Windsor in 1794

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 2

TWO of the oldest farms in the Commonwealth, which have been the property of one English family for 132 years, were sold by auction…

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Cattle-duffing Disguising Animals Story From the Hawkesbury

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 May 1930 · page 6

There has been a revival of cattle-stealing in various parts of the country, and judges and juries will have many tricky cases to unravel, though there does not seem to…

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The Farmers' Working Day (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 May 1930 · page 2

Sir,—In your issue of the 9th instant, Mr. S A Tuckerman, in the course, of his in teresting letter on "Agriculture Neglected," incidentally mentions that "the working…

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Fruitgrowing Devon Fruit Farm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 May 1930 · page 12

Mr. Wallace B. Jarman's orchard, Devon, Fruit Farm is situated on the main Flinders-road about two and a half miles from Red Hill; and extends, over 187 acres…

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Windsor's Old Farmhouse

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 May 1930 · page 12

ORIGINALLY the home of the late Johnnie Ford, Windsor's old farmhouse, situated on the banks of the Hawkesbury opposite the town, is one of the few remaining links in this district which binds the…

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Farmers' Long Hours (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 May 1930 · page 2

SIR,—In your issue of the 23rd. instant a letter appeared signed, "A Doubting Thomas." In reading through the letter I arrived at the conclusion that your…

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Farmers' Long Hours (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 June 1930 · page 3

Sir—My inquiry as to what the farmer does in his 12 to 15 hours' daily labor elicited from Mr. Tuckerman in your issue of the 30th instant, that they can be seen at the…

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Left Over £35,000 Wealthy Clarendon Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 1

SAMUEL HOSKISSON, farmer of "Clifton," Clarendon, who died on August 20 last, at the age of 85 years, left an estate valued at £35,674…

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Glossodia Farmer Guilty of Killing His Father Sentenced to Death! Son Found Guilty of Awful Deed Grim Ending to Glossodia Murder Trial "Case of Circumstantial Evidence," Says Judge

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 June 1930 · page 1

AFTER having made a statement from the dock at the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, last week, Cecil Farnsworth Charles (52), charged with having murdered his aged father, John Edward Charles (79), at Glossodia, on April 14, went into the witness-box and again protested his innocence…

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More Maize Farm Use and the Best Money Return

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 4 July 1930 · page 5

IF MAIZE were 7/6 a bushel it would still pay to crack it and use it as part of the ration in stall-feeding our milking cows…

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