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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1920

2,157 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 72 of 108

Bowthorne Butter Factory. Half-yearly Meeting

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 12

The twenty-seventh half-yearly meeting of the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory, Limited, was held in the board room, Morpeth, on…

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Cattle Mortality. Serious Losses at Wagga

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 5

Report have been received from various parts of the Wagga district of heavy mortality amongst cattle. A.E. Hunt, of the soldiers settlement at…

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Wheat Pool. Continuance of System

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 9

A motion urging the Government to arrange for the continuance of the pooling system for the handling of the 1920-21 crop under the…

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Butter Market. Australian Surplus. London, August 27

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 2

Further details have been made available regarding the new butter contract for the Australian surplus during, the approaching season…

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Price of Butter Premier Attacks the Commission

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 6

"I wish respectfully to express disagreement with the reasons given by his Honor Judge Rolin in deciding to increase the retail price of butter to…

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..The Rise in Wool Prices

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report: Good greasy wcols sold in London this week up to 64d. per lb. Prices for merinos generally advanced 5 to…

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Wool From the Four Corners

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. writes: Wool production in the Commonwealth is so large, that Australians are apt to overlook the fact that…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 4

These Notes are issued every week, ander the personal super[?] of the Minister of Agriculture and are based mainty on the experience of the Department…

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Wheat Pool. Financial Position of States

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 5

A further statement issued by the Australian Wheat Board brings its statistics up to August 30. The aggregate bank overdraft of the…

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Wheat Board Cases. Evidence Not Admissable

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 5

In consequence of certain evidence being ruled out as inadmisable, the Crown case against Thomas Smith, Rupert Jesse Coombes, Sclby…

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Price of Butter. Further Rise Requires. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 6

The Butter Pool Committee app[?] to the Necessary Commodnies Control Commission to-day for permission to increase the price of butter to 2.91…

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Price of Butter. Commission to Be Abolished. Government Disapproval

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 5

The Premier (Mr. John Storey) made statement on Wednesday concerning the action of the Necessary Commodities Commission in…

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Australasian Wool Sales. Higher Prices. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 11

The seventh series of wool sales opened with 72,000 bales of Australian and 18,000 bales of New Zealand wool. The finest qualities of combing greasy…

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Wool Profits. Dividend of £6,000,000

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 12

Australian wool-growers are about to receive an interim dividend of £6,000,000 odd, which is to be paid as the first instalment of the share due to them from…

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Wool Dividend 5 Per Cent on Appraised Value

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 4

A statement was made by the Prime Minister, in the House of Representatives on Thursday, that the basis on which the wool dividend was to be paid…

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Australian Wool Scheme. Yorkshire Critic. London, August 30

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

The "Yorkshire Observer's" trade correspondent scatchingly cricteses the Australian wool scheme which, he says continues to he pushed forward on…

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Australia's Wool Operations Involve £173,896,059 Central Committee's Report

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 6

The Central Wool Committee's report for the year ending June 30 last and a summary of four years' work was tabled in the Federal Parliament on…

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Miscellaeous. [?]Ree to Farmers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 4

The following publications are available free to farmers on application to the Under Secretary and Director, Department of Agriculture, Sydney:—…

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A Live Farming Community Needs One. Has You'r an "Idea Exchange?"

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 4

A branch, of the Agricultural Bureau is an "idea exchange"—have you one in your district? If not, interest your neighbours in the matter, get names…

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Soldier Settlements. Purchase of Poultry Farm at Grantham

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

Continuing his evidence at the Soldier Settlements inquiry in Sydney, George Henry Brodie, acting accountant in the Lands Department, stated that no books…

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