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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

239 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 12

Wheat Afloat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 September 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The wheat Boat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 1,510,000 quarters, and for the Continent at 1,415,000 quarters…

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The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 10

The arrivals of wool to date to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Company, and Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., totalled 3227 bales, compared with…

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A Great Wool Centre. the Textile Machinery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 16

Bradford is the largest centre of wool consumption in the entire world, It is almost beyond human power to form a correct estimate of the value of…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 10

Business in dairy produce lines was dull during the week. Butter supplies are increasing slightly, and prices remain without change…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—At the wool sales last evening competition was brisk, and merinos were very firm, Crossbreds were weak…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—At the wool tales last evening, prices were exceedingly firm. There was keen American competition for best…

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The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 10

The arrivals of wool to the agency of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co. and Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., number 4277 bales to date, compared with 7719 bales during…

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The Crops of the World

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 14

No wonder, says a writer on California, in "T.P.'s Weekly," the Americans boast that if shut in by a war with all of Europe they could feed the entire…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 10

Business dairy produce lines was good during the week. Butter supplies continue to come in more freely, but the demand being brisk,…

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Diseased Cattle Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 October 1906 · page 6

At the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Stephen Murphy, P.M., German Vergo end Austral Verge were each charged with having, at Kempsey, on…

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Australian Sheep in Africa

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—Thirty-eight bales of wool from Australian sheep, which were imported to Mombassa, British East Africa, in 1905, have been…

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Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 10

The arrivals of wool at Newcastle to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., and Messrs. Dalgety and Co. totalled 5347 bales, compared with 9759 bales…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 10

A satisfactory volume of business was passing in dairy produce lines during the week. Supplies of butter are coming in rapidly,…

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Corner in Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 October 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The New York correspondent of the "Daily Express" London, states that the magnates of the American Steel Trust…

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The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 October 1906 · page 10

The arrivals of wool to date to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., and Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., numbered 6566 bales, compared with 11,991…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 October 1906 · page 10

Operations in dairy produce lines, with the exception of butter, wore satisfactory during the week. "Butter buyers have boon acting…

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Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 10

The arrivals of wool to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Co. and Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., during the season, amounted to 8193 bales, compared…

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WOOL v. Cloth Prices

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 7

Nothing has staggered manufacturers no much this last few years as the constant advancing price of raw materials, wool especially. If one could fully…

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London News. the Victorian Exhibition.—the University Boat Race.—britain and Russia.—commonwealth Immigration.—imperial Text Books—wool and Cloth Prices.—soldiers in Six Months.—japanese Ambassador to Great Britain.—big Ships and Naval Supremacy.—percy Grainger and Wanda Radford. London, September 14

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 7

The Victorian Government is to be congratulated on its achievement at the Agricultural Hall, Islington. It is safe to say that the exhibit, which occupies the whole…

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Export Butter Trade. Combination Desired. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 October 1906 · page 5

A meeting of the Export Butter Committee which was created at the annual conference of co-operative butter factories held in August last, to periodically…

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