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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1926

2,506 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 126

Merinos Harden. Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 January 1926 · page 6

The fifteenth series of the Sydney wool sales commenced yesterday 11,202 bales being submitted at auction. Of this number 10,628 bales…

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Forty-four Hour Week and Butter

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 January 1926 · page 2

The 44-hour week is having a greater boomerang effect on the workers than appears to have been foreseen by their political and union leaders. The cost…

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Wool Sales (Router.) London, Tuesday. Night

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 January 1926 · page 2

The first series of the 1926 London wool sales opened to a large attendance, and 12,468 bales were offered. Good selection met with fair demand, chiefly…

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Best Lines Firm. Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 January 1926 · page 3

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 9511 bales, and the sales…

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Homebush Stock Sales. Prime Beef Unchanged Sheep Dearer. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 January 1926 · page 5

Winchcombe Carson, Ltd., report: Cattle: 3600 yarded the bulk medium to useful-quality Prime bullock's were unaltered, other's weather at the…

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Forty-four Hours. Dairy Produce Affected. Increased Delivery Charges

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 January 1926 · page 6

In consequence of the introduction of the 44-hour working week, and the resultant increased cost of handling and distribution, the Dairy Produce…

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Raymond Terrace Dairy Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 January 1926 · page 4

The Factory now in course of erection for the Raymond Terrace Dairy and Produce Company, Ltd. at Hexham, will deal with butter, choose…

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Butter Market

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 4

Messrs Prescott Ltd report under late 9th January, 1926 as follows:— Sydney sales are slow at the advanced price of 168/- per cwt., buyers having…

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Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 7

The New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co., Ltd., report 20th inst.: Our catalogue submitted on Tuesday last was one of the best selections which…

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Butter Export. Commonwealth Gradings

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 3

During the week ended January 16. the Commonwealth graders examined for export at Sydney 28,315 boxes of salted and 2312 of unsalted butter, a…

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Wheat-Breeders. Making a Desert Bloom

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 3

The patient, unceasing toll of stud wheatbreoders, says the "Daily Telegraph," is often overlooked. Thinking, and not talking, is one of…

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Wool Sales. Week's Offerings in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 7

Offering during the week in Sydney amounted to [?]708 bales, of which 34,324 bales, or 88 per cent, were sold at, auction, Private sales brought the…

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Australian Wool Samples for Testing Shipped to Australia

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 9

Mr. G. Vaccari, of 90 Queen-street, Melbourne, has been advised that samples comprising about one ton of artificial wool manufactured by the…

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National Farmers. Object to Empire Preference. London, Jan. 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 5

At the annual general meeting of the National Farmers' Union in London the milk and dairy produce committee reported that a determined…

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Stock Exchange Dull Business Experience. Eggs, Butter, Wine, Wool. LONDON, Jan. 16

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 12

The first fortnight of the new year has been a dull period on the Stock Exchange, and business all round has been on the small side. A noteworthy…

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Muswellbrook. Butter Factory Operations

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 7

At the factory of the Muswellbrook Co-operative Dairy Co. during the month of December last, the quantity of butter made was 57,141lbs choicest…

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The Season's Wheat

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 4

On Friday the grain trade section of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce will determine the f.a.q. standard of New South Wales wheat for the…

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Wool Sales. Yorkshire Active

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 9

Values secured at the Sydney wool sales of this week were disappointing to those optimistically inclined; but to those content to see business proceed…

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New Wheat. Early Maturing Variety

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 14

Mention is made in the Canadian News Letter supplied by the Natural Resources Intelligence service of the Department of the Interior at Ottawa…

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Butter Making. Effect of Forty-our Hours

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 2

The 44-hour week is having a greater boomerang effect on the workers than appears to have been forseen by their political and union leaders…

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