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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 3

Trade in dairy produce was of an average volume, the most notable alterations being the increases in the prices of butter and cheese…

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Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 3

A fair volume of business was transacted in farm produce during the week, there being a good inquiry for practically all lines, the most notable…

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Farmer's Disappearance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 5

J. S. Evans, of Tycanol, a well-known South Wales farmer, who was a county magistrate and a county councillor, who disappeared five months ago, after…

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Greta Cotton Successful Crops

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 6

Several pods of cotton. grown on land beside Tattersall's Hotel, Greta, which have been brought into the "Sun" office indicates graphically the…

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Assistance to Farmers Sir Arthur Cocks' Statement Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1924 · page 4

In a statement he made to-night, Sir Arthur Cocks, the Treasurer, illustrated the variety of the demands on the Treasury, and said that from the statements…

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Waiting for Wool LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 May 1924 · page 1

Bradford topmakers are awaiting the re-opening of the London wool auctions. Quotations are nominal…

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Farm Traction Replacing the Horse

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 May 1924 · page 8

One factor in the price of land nowadays is its distance from a railway. Men have become accustomed to reckoning this in terms of miles.. For…

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Raw Wool London

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 May 1924 · page 1

Mr. A. V. Alexander (Board of Trade) Interrogated in the House of Commons, said that Britain imported 1,096,493 bales of Central Australian…

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Long Trail Queensland "Cattle BRISBANE

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 May 1924 · page 4

After travelling 150 miles from Tobermorey Station to rail head, at Dajarra, and traversing 1460 miles to Brisbane by train, a mob of 350 cattle…

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Cattle Thefts Animals .Traced to Sydney SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 May 1924 · page 5

Two detectives have spent several days on the Queensland border Investigating the cases of cattle stealing. The detectives went about the rough…

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Jumper Craze Increases Wool. Lemand LONDON, Tuesday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 May 1924 · page 5

The craze for mon's and women's jumpers has increased the world's demand for wool. The trade declares that sooner or later substitutes 'must…

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Deer Pest Farmers Affected Wellington (N. z)

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 May 1924 · page 4

According to the Director of Forestry, there are something like 800,000 deer In the Dominion, and they are Increasing by thousands every year…

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Wool War Scheme Its Termination Need for More Sheep (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 May 1924 · page 5

Sir Arthur Goldfinch entertained a distinguished company of over a hundred representatives of the Australian, New Zealand and Yorkshire wool trade at the…

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Wheat Sales London

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 May 1924 · page 1

Victorian wheat ex Indian City sold at 48s 6d a quarter. Parcels of Australian by the Borra- bool and Mongolia (afloat) sold at 47s 6d,…

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Price of Butter. Grounds for Suspicion SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 May 1924 · page 5

It is becoming a regular practice for certain retail grocers to advertise on their shop windows choicest butter for sale at a price equivalent to,…

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Rising Market Remarkable Wool Profits LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 May 1924 · page 1

Since the boom in wool values set In many Bradford men have made handsome fortunes almost without effort They bought Australian wool…

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End of Bawra Celebrated- by Dinner Wool Still King . LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 May 1924 · page 1

Sir Arthur Goldfinch, head of the "Bawra" organisation, presided at a dinner at the Savoy Hotel to celebrate the wind- up of that association…

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Helping the Farmer Conference of Ministers SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 May 1924 · page 5

At the conference of Ministers of Agriculture to- day the State Governor, Sir Dudley de Chair, drew attention to tho decline In the area under cultivation…

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Wheat Sales London

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 5

Victorian wheat ex Hippalos sold at 49s a quarter; Viking (afloat), 48s 3d; South Australian, ex Balpo, 48s; part cargo Australian wheat by Port Hardy,…

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Good Prices English Wool Sales LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 1

At the wool sales, 10,700 bales were submitted to a full attendance of buyers. Victorian greasy merino realised…

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