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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1933

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Wool Sales London Series LONDON Jan. 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 January 1933 · page 1

The available bales at the wool sales commencing on January 17 will number 161,000 including new arrivals of 72,200 Australian, 38,200…

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Cheaper Water Poultry Farmers' Request Board's Reply

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 January 1933 · page 6

The TEnambit Poultry Farmers Association wrote to the Hunter water Board requesting reduction in the charge for water supplied to…

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New Record Transport Figures Wool and Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 6

Record figures were set up by the Railway Department un handling the wool clip and the wheat harvest…

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Butter in London Forward Selling Condemned

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 4

Members of the Dairy Produce Export Board met in Melbourne chiefly to consider the desirability of checking sales of butter on an f.o.b. or c.i.f. basis. Most of the…

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Values Firm Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 4

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 1,900 bales, and the sales, amounted to 1,813 bales. The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers report:—The average price of wool in Sydney last week was £10/1/7 per bale, or 8.27d per 1b. At…

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Dairy Farming Assistance Scheme Money Ready

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 6

In view of the fact that forme of application for assistance under the Dairy Promotion Board scheme are now available at…

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Farmer's Relief

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 1

The Assistant Treasurer (Mr. Spooner) says that the Farmers' Debt Relief Act would be proclaimed before the end of the month…

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Aid to Dairyfarmers

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 2

Consideration was given at a meeting of the directors of the Cootamundra Dairymen's Association, Ltd., to the scheme whereby dairymen may receive help to…

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Butter Factory

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 4
Also in The Scone Advocate, The Muswellbrook Chronicle

After a good deal of negotiations between dairymen and the Bowthorne Company an agreement has been reached. Renovations were…

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Research Work Dairy Cattle Diseases Grant of £2000

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 2

Representatives of the Australian Dairy Cattle Research Association in a deputation made a request to a meeting of the Australian Dairy…

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Wool Sales

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 3

A record number of buyers, representing practically every wool-buying centre of the world, attended the sixth wool sale of the season which was…

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Wool Conference

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 6

The wool industry conference, convened to discuss the Federal committee's report, was opened by the Minister for Commerce on Monday. Mr…

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Olla Podrida Australia's Sheep.—

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 4

The estimated number of sheep in Australia at the end of last year was 113,048,920, which is quite as much as it can carry in normal seasons…

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Dairying. (Supplied by the Department of Agriculture) Diseases of Dairy Cattle

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 4

Once it is realised, that most of the diseases which cause extensive losses in dairy cattle are infectious, pointed out a departmental veterinary officer in a…

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China Starting to Think Wool

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 3

The Wing On Textile Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Shangai, was started in 1922 with a capital of 6,000,000 dollars for one factory. Now it operates three…

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Wheat Truckings Record Broken at Coulburn

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 6

The record for wheat truckings through Goulburn was broken last week when 63,000 tons were handled, the railways staffs having the busiest time…

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Cattle Shot. Too Weak to Stand-charleville Drought

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 6

A message from Charleville states that all the water holes are drying up fast and unless rain comes shortly it will mean…

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Merino and Crossbred Wool. Supplies and Demand

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 6

Despite the advance recorded in values for wool and tops, the market has lately been slightly below the level ruling last January…

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