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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

3,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 28 of 151

Skin Wool Case. High Court Ruling Upheld

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 2

A cable message received in Melbourne from London states that the Privy Council has refused leave for certain owners of skin-wools to…

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Wool Trade. Research Exhibition Opened London, March 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 5

The Earl of Balfour to-day opened at the Science Museum, South Kensington, an exposition arranged by the Research Association illustrating the…

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Wheat Ballot. Compulsory Pool Rejected. Many Growers Did Not Vote Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 5

In the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Minister for Agriculture announced that the ballot amongst wheat-growers has resulted in the…

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Dairy Industry Protecting Producers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 8

A meeting of the Federal Parliamentary Country Party was held on Tuesday. The following resolution was…

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Singleton Letter. Co-operative Dairy Company. Annual Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 8

The annual meeting of Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., was held on Saturday. Mr. G. Moxey (chairman of directors) presided, and…

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Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 8

Business conditions generally were dull at the Alexandria forage market. Choice wheaten chaff sold privately to £8 per ton, whilst oaten chuff sold to…

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Hid in Millet Crop Little Girl's Leg Severed

Singleton Argus · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 2

A baby girl at King's Creek, near Toowoomba (Q.), hid in a crop of millet, and had her left leg severed by the knife of a reaping machine…

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Sheep and Wool. Neglected Opportunities

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 10
Also in The Scone Advocate

Mr. J. C. Tanner, formerly president of the Northern Agricultural Association, had something to say on the question of sheep at the annual meeting of…

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Pastoral Big Estates. Graduated Tax

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 4

The Lang Government is going ahead with its Bill (Agriculture Development Bill) to "burst up the big estates." Exemption for estates…

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Pastoral. Big Estates. Graduated Tax

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 6

The Lang Government is going ahead with its Bill (Agricultural Development Bill) to "burst up the big estates." Exemption for estates up to £10,000…

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Butter. a Twofold Objective

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 4

The cable of warning received last week from the London Agency, in which a rather gloomy outlook for Australian butter in London during…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 2

At yesterday's sales, Continental buyers continued to operate extensively. Japan and Great Britain gave strong support. A feature of the sales was a…

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Pastoral Award. Claims by Graziers. Reduced Rates

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 6

The Graziers' Association has Served claims upon the A.W.U., and these claims will form a basis for securing a new Federal Pastoral…

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Producers' Distributing Society. Empire Butter Position

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 4

The recent published report of the Imperial Economic Committee which sat in London, dealing with the dairy produce, is not in any way pessimistic as to the…

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Price of Butter. Country Party's Decision

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 3

The Federal Country Party carried the following resolution:— "That the Party pledges itself to do all in its power to obtain for those…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 3

These notes arc issued every week by direction of the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department…

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Wool Sales. Sydney Market Very Firm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 3

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool. Exchange, Birdge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,067 bales and the sales,…

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A Sound Wool Outlook. English and American Position

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson, Limited, Sydney report under date 24th February, 1927:— It is doubtful if at any period in the…

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Bawra Funds. Skin Wool Case. £1,750,000 AVAILABLE Melbourne

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 5

Cables received in Melbourne to-day by Sir John Higgins liquidator of Bawra, and other interested in that company stated that the Privy…

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