To-day’s Leader : Wheat Stabilisation Atmosphere of Gloom Spreads Over Western Berlin Russia Vetoes Resolution To End The Blockade
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 October 1948 · page 1
PARIS, October 26.—Russia vetoed a resolution before the UNO Security Council yesterday aimed at ending the months’ old blockade of Berlin. The chief Russian delegate to UNO (Mr. Vishinsky), after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£10,343 Disbursed To Dairymen
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 October 1948 · page 3
GLOUCESTER: The Gloucester Dairy Co. disbursed £10,343/ 11/10 for September, which included a dividend of £750. A total…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Supply of Electricity to Two Dairy Farms Bandon Grove and Their Possible Inclusion in the Subsidy Scheme
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 27 October 1948 · page 4
The President of Wallarobba Shire said that these two farms owned by Mr. G. Dowling were brought into production after the line was put through…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Red Letter Day in District Dairying £30,000 Adjunct Officially Opened OVER 400 Attend Ceremony
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 October 1948 · page 1
Yesterday was a red letter day in the already colourful history of dairying in this district, when the new milk plant and rooms, a £30,000 adjunct to Singleton and District Company's plant, was officially opened. More than 400 people attended the official ceremony…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Cheaper at Homebush
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 28 October 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thurs. — Winchcombe Carson Ltd., report: 84,846 sheep penned of mixed quality. Really prime suckers were Arm and grown’…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Embroidery Strikes New Note At Paris Winter Shows
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 28 October 1948 · page 3
Most distinctive fashion note in Paris this winter and an item that is bound to be featured in Australian fashions next winter, is the use of wool embroidery together with jet braid and sequin trimmings to highlight simple wool gowns…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Crops Destroyed by Black Insects
Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 28 October 1948 · page 4
Black insects which recently invaded the coastal areas were playing havoc with vegetable crops die District Agronomist, (Mr G. T. Dawson) said…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Report
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 29 October 1948 · page 10
Also in The Scone Advocate
The A.M.L. and F. Co. Ltd. report having sold the following district clips in their sale in Newcastle on the 21st October, 1948:—…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Extra Butter Next Month
Maitland Mercury · Friday 29 October 1948 · page 4
CANBERRA, Friday.—Everyone will receive an extra half pound of butter during November. This was announced in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Stabilisation Plan
The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 October 1948 · page 7
Mr. R,. B. Nott, M.L.A. for Liverpool Plains, has forwarded us the following debate, which took place recently in Parliament:…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Wool Sales
Maitland Mercury · Friday 29 October 1948 · page 7
Wool sales were held at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, Sydney, yesterday. The quantity catalogued…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hail Storm Destroys Wheat
Singleton Argus · Friday 29 October 1948 · page 5
The worst hailstorm in the history of Cootamundra destroyed wheat and hay crops on a 20-mile front yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Sales Winchcombe, Carson
Singleton Argus · Friday 29 October 1948 · page 7
Winchcombe, Carson report: We sold 7800 bales ot wool at our Sydney auction on Tuesday. There was strong competition…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cattle Values Down at Denman Market
The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 October 1948 · page 5
Edward Higgens, Parkinson & Co. report a large attendance of buyers at their cattle sale acid at Denman on Friday last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Film for Woolgrowers Wool Board's Unit To Show at Scone
The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 October 1948 · page 4
Films for woolgrowers with sheep diseases and other sheep and wool problems will be screened aL the Civic Theatre,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Films for Woolgrowers. Wool Board's Unit to Show at Muswellbrook
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 29 October 1948 · page 2
Films for woolgrowers dealing with sheep diseases and other sheep and wool problems will be screened at the Masonic Hall, Muswellbrook, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →25 Years Ago (From issues of "Argus" for period ended October 31.1923). Aphis Cause Butter to Change Color
Singleton Argus · Friday 29 October 1948 · page 2
A plague of aphis in the Hunter Valley (of some weeks' duration) is to be found in dense clusters on all kinds of feed and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wealthy Farmer Charged With Attempted Murder
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 29 October 1948 · page 7
A man went to the homestead of farmer near Yamba, on the Clarence River, early yesterday, and, it is alleged, said he had killed his family…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Seaham Herd Wins Hunter Dairy Competition
Maitland Mercury · Friday 29 October 1948 · page 3
With on entry of 58 Ayrshire grade cows, Mr. J. B. Boag, of Seaham, won the Hunter Valley District herd production improvement scheme competition, conducted by the department of agriculture…
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