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Farming & the land, 1946

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Worlds Food Situation Is Alarming Wheat And Rice Shortages Australian Associated Press

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 1

LONDON, February 14.—“I don’t exaggerate the situation when I say it is really alarming, declared the Foreign Minister (Mr. Bevin), referring to the world wheat shortage during a speech, at die General Assembly of the U.N.O…

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Bob's Farm Deviation

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 3

The residents of Bob's Farm sent in to the Shire Council, a letter through the New Road Progress Association asking that attention be given to a portion…

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Junior Farmer’s Scholarship

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 2

Robert Irwin, of the Mos[?]brook District Central Sch[?] has been awarded the [?]ment of Education Junior [?]…

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Gunnedah Cattle Sale

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., Sydney, and Fleming and Ross, Gunnedah, report a satisfactory clearence at their cattle sale on…

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Wheat Standard

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY. Friday.—FAQ standard wheat for the current season was fixed to-day at 63½d 1b…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 3
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

The Farmers & Graziers Co-operative Grain, Insurance and Agency Company, Limited, reports, 9th February, 1946:…

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Review Of The Butter Industry

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 3

Pescott. pty. Ltd., in a review of the butter industry report that useful-rains have fallen oh most of the north coast of N. S. W., the…

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Maitland Stock Sales Cattle Firm

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 3

An exceptionally heavy yarding of all classes of cattle was forward at Maitland saleyards on Monday, the quality generally being well up to the…

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Pedigree Cattle for Australia Regular British Shipments

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 1

The first post-war regular British cattle shipments for Australia are due to leave England this week…

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Wool Reports The Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Grain Insurance & Agency Co., Ltd., reports 9th February, 1946

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 5

We submitted our catalogue No. 181 on Thursday, 7th inst., the appraisement being finalised the following day. The selection was largely of an…

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U.s.a. Use of Wool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: At least in the immediate future the greatest field for large wool consumption is America. The nation is rich…

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World's Food Situation Is Alarming Wheat and Rice Shortages London, February 14

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 6

"I don't exaggerate the situation when I say it is really alarming, declared the Foreign Minister (Mr. Bevin), referring…

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Dairymen Determined on Direct Action “Only Means of Getting Justice”

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.—When the Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council decided on direct action they meant, it said the chairman (Mr. W. W. Elkin) in a statement issued after a meeting of the Council’s executive…

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Prediction That Dairymen Will Get 1/7½ For Milk Hopeful Outlook of P.P.U General Secretary "If We Don't Get It, Out We Come"

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 1

Mr L. J. Johnstone, General Secretary of the Primary Producers, Union, told the quarterly meeting of Central Hunter District Council of the Union yesterday that he was very hopeful a set price of 1/7½ per gailon for whole milk would be announced next week…

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Future of the Wool Industry

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 16 February 1946 · page 3

LONDON Feb. 15 — Dr. Ed win H. Booth, Chairman of the International Wool Secretariat, who returned to London on…

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Australia’s Rice Crop to Go to London Mr. Beasley Tells United Nations

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 16 February 1946 · page 4

LONDON, February 16.—Although Australia was not a large producer of rice —the annual crop was only 30,000 tons—Production had been increased, and the whole of the coming season’s crop had been allocated to the London…

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Sheep Dearer At Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 February 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY Monday.— Winchcombe Carson Ltd report.—22 057 sheep penned of useful guilty. The market opened fully 1/…

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Wheat for India

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 February 1946 · page 2

CANBERRA Monday—Australia will do all it can to send 1,50,000 tons of wheat to famine threatened India before the end…

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N.t. Cattle Areas for Selection Resumption From Big Pasoral Companies

Singleton Argus · Monday 18 February 1946 · page 1

The Administrator of the Northern Territory (Mr. Abbott) announced that after June 5000 square miles of cattle country…

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