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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

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Wheat Board. Overdraft Reduced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 6

The financial statement of the Australian Wheat Board for the week en-ded December 27, issued to-day, shows that the bank overdraft was…

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Wheat Board. Reduction of Overdraft

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 3

The aggregate bank overdraft of the Australian Wheat Board was reduced from £745,000 to £706,000 during the week ended December 20…

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Wheat Dockage. Boards Amended Scale

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 12

S[?] have been made by the Stare When Board in the [?]…

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Wheat Commission. Judge's Final Report

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 6

It is stated by the Premier, Mr. Storey, that the Government has accepted the final report of Mr. Justice Pring on his commission to inquire…

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Wheat Lumpers. No Great Increase

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 11

Members of the State Wheat Board, commenting on the new scale of wages for wheat handling at Darling Island, stated that there was no great…

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Wool Sale Scheme. London. December 23

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 2

Sir Arthur Goldfinch demes the allegation that the Government is refusing to sell wool except at Profiteering rates. He explains that it could not sell…

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Heavy Wool Stocks. Held in Japan

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 5

The Commercial Commissioner in the East (Mr. J. B. Suttor) informs the Premier that the Japanese Woollen interests have formed a Textile…

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Wheat Board. Criticism at Young. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 7

The state Wheat Board takes exception to a report from Young that the district farmers have a grievance against the board in deciding to…

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Wool Sale Scheme. Reply to Critics. London, December 26

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 14

Replying to a telegram, from the Bradford Chamber of Commerce asking for details of the Australian Government's wool realisation scheme, the…

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Dairying. to Make Good Cheese

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 11

As in the making of good butter, so in the making of good cheese certain elementary requirements must be satisfied. For instance, the less disturbance…

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Dairying in New Zealand. a Maitlander's Impressions

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 5

A visit to New Zealand was recently made by Mr. J. K. O'Neill of West Maitland. he travelled extensively over the North Island, and being a…

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Financial Outlook. the Position Improving. Effect of Wheat Harvest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 January 1921 · page 6

"The financial outlook is rapidly improving." declared the Treasurer Mr. Lang on Saturday. "This is almost entirely owing to the record…

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Wheat Price Reduced. London, January 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 5

The Government to-day reduced the price of all foreign wlient by 2/ a quarter…

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Sugar Cane Crop. Heavy Planting in Queensland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 6

Weather conditions during the past month are said to have continued in all respects favourable for the Quensland sugar cane crop, so far as the…

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Dairying. the Cheese Mite

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 6

To the average consumer of cheese the cheese mite is merely an object of curiosity, though many suppose that it is only to be found on a good cheese. The…

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Vtticultural. to Safeguard the Grape Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 6

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. W. F. Dunn, desires that the attention of vignerons be directed to the importance of taking precautions against…

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Wheat Vessels

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 5

Nearly fifty vessels arc either in Australian ports or on their way here to load wheat for the Continent, or the United Kingdom…

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Wheat Yields. Government Exteriment Plots

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 3

An average at 87 bushels 24lb, per was harvested from the farmer's experiment wheat plots on the farr of Mr. J. Parslow, Kelvin, Gilgandra…

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Hoarded Wool. British Governments Action

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 4

Almost the whole of the wool being sold in this country to-day for immediate delivery are owned by the British Government (says…

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