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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

891 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 45

1,000,000 Farmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1921 · page 5

This suggestion of a million farmers savours of quixoticism because, in the main it has caught us "unawares," and because it seems, at first glance, to be without a…

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The Sheep Industry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 August 1921 · page 4

The preliminary figures of the autumn and winter lambing in New South Wales are eminently satisfactory. During the drought which…

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Woman Goes Farming Heroic Army Nurse Twice Decorated Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 August 1921 · page 3

Miss Milicent Armstrong who was services as an army nurse in France and who holds the croix de Guerre and Distinguished British order, has…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 August 1921 · page 4

The August wool offerings were commenced to-day, when Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, Limited, and Country Producers’ Selling Company, Limited,…

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Wool Market Quiet Keeping Machinery Going LONDON, Monday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 August 1921 · page 5

The Bradford wool tops market is quiet. Small orders are being executed at low rates to keep the machinery going, but the merchants are…

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Farmers and Settlers. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 August 1921 · page 4

There was a large attendance of delegates at the King’s Hall to-day, when the 28th annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held…

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Wheat Pool. State Farmers' Decision. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 August 1921 · page 7

Proposals for a compulsory wheat pool were debated at the Farmers and Settlers' Conference to-day. Resolutions from the Parkes and…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 August 1921 · page 7

The wool market was, if altered at all, slightly improved to-day, and there was very keen demand for the offerings, which totalled 4561 bales. The sellers…

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Price of Butter. Increase Asked For. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 August 1921 · page 7

An application was made to-day to Judge Booby in the Profiteering Prevention Court by the New South Wales section of the Butter Pool Committee for an…

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Old Wool Clipper Mount Stewart's Return 36 Days Prom Africa

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 August 1921 · page 7

The British ship. Mount Stewart arrived at sydney on Sunday from Delagoa Bay and was rowed by the tug Heroic to an anchorage off chowder…

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Wheat for Russia Million Tons Needed Bad American Harvest SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 August 1921 · page 5

The Lindley walker co-operative wheat co., Ltd., has received the following cable from Liverpool England: "The Russian famine is very acute,…

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Farmers and Settlers. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 August 1921 · page 7

At the Farmers and Settlers' Conference to-day, resolutions dealing with the Progressive Party, were dealt with. The constitution provides that the central…

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New States Farmers' Desire To Stop Drift to Cities SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 August 1921 · page 5

Mr. Drummond, M. L. A., speaking on behalf of several branches of farmers and settlers moved at the annual conference to-day. "That this conference…

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A Farmers' Wheat Pool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 August 1921 · page 4

The New South Wales Farmers and Settlers' Association has affirmed the principle of a wheat pool with the stipulation that it should be managed…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 August 1921 · page 5

The keenness of demand for in merinos, which characterised yesterday's wool sales, was again manifest to-day, with the result that late firm rates were fully…

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Demand for Land Farmers' Pleas Surveyed, But Not Settled SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 August 1921 · page 5

In these times when economists agree upon the necessity for settling more people on the land, when there is in the air a scheme for acquiring…

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Fixation of Prices Farmers' Protest Despite Judge Beeby" SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 August 1921 · page 5

When the Farmers and Settlers Association met this morning, the president. Mr. Killen, said that he had arranged that the conference should…

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Margarine and Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 August 1921 · page 9

Australian interests are affected by the rapid advance made by margarine manufacturing companies. A cable message from London a few days ago stated that…

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Price of Butter. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 August 1921 · page 4

The hearing was concluded to-day in the Profiteering Prevention Court, before Judge Beeby, of the application for permission to increase the wholesale price…

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Wheat Pool Approved. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 August 1921 · page 4

At the Farmers and Settlers' Association Conference to-day it was announced that the ballot of wheatgrowers bad resulted overwhelmingly in favour of a…

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