Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Farming & the land, all years

Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1920

2,157 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 71 of 108

Commercial. Farmers' Produce Markets. Sussex-street Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 September 1920 · page 4

Quotations in Sussex-street to-day were:—Maize, 7/6 to 8/ per bushel; onions, £22 to £25 per ton; potatoes, £14 to £16 per ton…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Butter Shortage

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 3

There is a scarcity of butter in town. It seems remarkable that whenever there is a rise in the price of butter pending there develops a…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Wool

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 4

The Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd., report 26th August: A "white paper," issued by the Minister of Munitions, London, a summary of…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Wool Reports

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 6

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report September 1: — The local market has been void of special interest during the past…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

High Prices of Butter

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 3

With reference to the present high prices ruling for butter, and which are likely to be maintained for some time to come, the smallest…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Butter and Cheese Prices Increased

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 3

" I am satisfied the farming community will not be making any undue profit at the expense of other members of the community if we grant this increase." said Judge…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Butter Increase. the Price to Stand

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 5

The increase in the price of latter, as decided by the Necessary Commodities Commission on Tuesday, is to stand, for the time being at any rate…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Australian Wool. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 5

At the wool auction sales, to-day fine greasy combings from New South Wales commanded from 47d to 72d a lb…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Price of Butter. Application for Increase Granted

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 3

The Butter Pool Commission applied to the Necessary Commodities Control Commission on Tuesday for permission to increase the price of…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Alleged Wheat Conspiracy. Accused Men Discharged

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 3

Further evidence was given in the Criminal Court, Sydney, on Tuesday, in the case in which four men—Reginald Rheuben, Selby…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 4

These notes are issued every week under the personal supervision of the Honorable tho Minister for Agriculture and are based mainly on the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Wool Sales. Distribution of Retention Money

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 7

The New South Wales State, Wool Committee has advised, the Sydney Wool Selling Brokers as follows:— Advice is now to hand from the…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

The Dairy-farmers' Case

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 5

The recognition by the Necessary Commodities' Commission that the producers are entitled to sell in the best market, and that they are not…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Wool Dividend. £13,000,000 to Be Paid. Prime Minister's Statement. Melbourne

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 2

The Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, in the House of Representatives this afternoon said that during September and October the sum of £13,091,833 would…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Chinese Crops' Failure Terrible Famine. Shanghai, Sept 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 5

A message from Tientsin, under date Sept 2, states that numerous reports from Honan, Shantung, and South Chili, emphasise the extreme…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Butter Exports

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 3

Mr. Gavin Wilson general secretary of the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Pool Committee advises that he had received an official cable message from…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Muswellbrooic Cattle Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 2

Ed. Higgens, Parkinson & Co., report having yarded about 1000 cattle on the 31st. ult. to a large attendance of buyers, and the market ruled well…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Store Cattle Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 1

Messrs. Dodd & Horder report having held a very successful sale of cattle at Scone yards oil the 27th. Aug., to a record attendance of…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Wool Money Subscriptions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 4

Sir Denison Miller, governor of the Commonwealth Bank, returned to Sydney on Thursday from a motor tour through the central, southern,…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Wheat Commission. Georgeson's Condition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 7

Proceedings under the Lunaey Act have been instituted by the Crown Law Dopartmeat for a declaration that Mr. Georgoson, a matorl[?] witness before…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →