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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1934

2,897 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 28 of 145

Victorian Butter

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 3

Regular supplies of butter from Victoria, and in one instance from Tasmania also, have been received in Sydney in quantities varying from a…

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Armidale Cattle Sale

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 2

Messrs. A. H. McArthur and Co., advertise 1500 head of good quality store cattle at auction at Armidale on Friday, 16th inst. The yarding will…

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Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 4

The Farmers and Graziers' Co.-op. Coy., reports:— On 26th February, we offered 8569 bales, principally from the New…

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Butter Industry Export Figures

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 4

According to information made available by the Minister for Commerce (Mr. F. H. Stewart), exports of butter from Australia this season…

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Needy Farmers Question of Help Wheat Commission Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 1

Continuing his evidence before Wheat Royal Commission to-day, Mr. C. Hawker, M.H.R., farmer and grazier of South Australia, suggested that the…

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Butter Exports Figures for 1933

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 5

The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Stewart) stated that according to a report issued by the British Minister of Agriculure, imports of butter into the…

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Strong Demand Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 8

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 14,536 bales, and the clearance,…

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Butter Market. Stabilisation Scheme. P.P.U. MEETING

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 3

"When the new system is operating there will be no occasion for our prices to follow the vagaries of the London market, over which,…

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Developing the Country. Dairying and Grazing. Tourist Possibilities. Gold Bearing Country

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 5

It should be the aim and the desire of every progressive resident in Australia to see all centres of this country fully developed. After the same…

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Dairy Products Board

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 4

The New South Wales Dairy Products Board, recently constituted under the Dairy Products Act, 1933, met during the past week at the offices of…

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Cattle Stealing Plea of Guilty KURRI

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 5

Before Mr. A. E. Mahony, P.M., at the Kurri Kurri police Court this morning, Bartholomew Brown was charged with stealing one yellow…

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Wheat Industry Valuable Suggestion SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 1

Some form of Premiers' Plan for the wheat industry who envisaged by the Chairman of the Wheat Royal Commission, Sir Herbert Gepp, when…

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Wool Sales Continent Active LONDON, March 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 1

The new wool-selling series opened to-day when 7935 bales were offered. Of these approximately 3273 were sold. There was a good selection and…

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London Wool Sales Opening of Series. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) London

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 1

The wool selling series opened today, when 7955 bales were offered, ineluding 390 from New South Wales. Approximately 3277 were sold…

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Yanco Case Welfare Farm Boy's Death Leeton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 1

An inquiry into the disciplinary methods and methods of punishment at Welfare Farms was recommended by…

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Dairy Produce Board

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 6

A Dairy Produce Board, to co-operate with the Commonwealth Board and similar bodies in other States, was constituted by the Victorian…

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Welfare Farm Inquiry Major Parsonage Gives Evidence

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 2

At the Yance Welfare Farm inquiry yesterday, Major Parsonage, the suspended Superintendent, said, in evidence, that he had introduced a scheme…

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Wheat Growers Unfair Treatment Farmer's View

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 7

A pica for greater consideration for the wheat grower In a small way was made to-day by Mr. Frank E, Heywood, of Manilla, a former…

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Butter Export Federal Gradings

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 10

During the week ended March 3 the Commonwealth graders examined for export at Sydney 22,503 boxes of butter, of which 17,655 were salted…

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Price of Butter (To the Editor)

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 2

Evidently the spirit of profiteering is still very much alive in a section of the business community. I refer to the action of the retail stores in charging 1/3 per lb…

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