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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1932

1,561 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 79

Australian Wool Clip Estimate of 3,168,000 Bales ADELAIDE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 June 1932 · page 7

At the annual conference to-day, between the Australian Woolgrowers' Council and the National Council of Woolselling Brokers, it was estimated that…

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Library Service American Rural System Interesting Farm Women in Reading

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 June 1932 · page 13

It isn't always the brownstone front that makes the library, Louisiana is proving. How, without buildings at all in many cases, the essential part of library…

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Butter Export Prices Unsatisfactory MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 June 1932 · page 2

The Minister for Commerce (Mr. C. A. S. Hawker), commenting on the better position, regretted that the disturbed financial conditions throughout Europe seem…

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Sydney Wool Sales Selection Below Average SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1932 · page 4

At to-day's Sydney wool sales, 5317 bales were offered, and 4089 bales sold. The selection was below the average. Sydney Wool-selling Brokers' report the…

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Closing Wool Sale Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1932 · page 9

At the closing sale of the wool season, held in Sydney to-day, 4671 bales were offered at auction, 3314 being sold, while 1935 bales were disposed of privately. The…

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Two Men Sentenced Sheep-stealing in Victoria MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1932 · page 6

Convicted of sheep stealing in the Bacchus Marsh District, David O'Keefe, 58. and Ernest Watson, 32. were each sentenced to two years' imprisonment by…

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Butter Factories Tasmanian Companies "Houses Set in Order" Launceston

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1932 · page 6

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. A. W. Wardlaw, M.L.C.), addressing a conference of butter factory managers at Launceston to-day, referred to a scathing…

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Car Struck Barricade Farmer Claims Damage

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 June 1932 · page 6

Formers who allow cows to stray on tho roads should not complain when they run into obstructions placed on roads by councils…

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Tasmanian Butter Fear of Overproduction LAUNCESTON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 June 1932 · page 9

After a discussion, during which decided views were expressed, the annual conference of the Tasmanian Butter Factories Managers' Association, sitting in…

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Prices Drop Final Adelaide Wool Sale ADELAIDE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 June 1932 · page 9

At the final wool sale of the season to-day a mixed selection was offered. Good competition ruled for wool suitable for Australian mills and Japanese…

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Pastoral Award Graziers Seek Variation Further Evidence Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 June 1932 · page 10

When the hearing of the claim for a variation of the pastoral award was resumed before Chief Judge Dethridge in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, it…

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American Dollar Cause of Deflation Graziers' Discussion Low Returns for Wool SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 June 1932 · page 10

That England and Australia concerned themselves unnecessarily with the value of sterling in relation to the American dollar was claimed by speakers at to-day's…

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Butter's "Spreadability."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1932 · page 5

Tests of the "spreadability" of butter: a search for an aeroplane which will not go into a spin, and an attempt to establish a wave of light as a world unit of…

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Butter and Cheese Canadian-Australian Trade Agreement

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1932 · page 3

A statement made available by the Minister for Commerce (Mr. C. A. S. Hawker) regarding the Canadian-Australian Trade Agreement, which came into…

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Farmer Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 18 June 1932 · page 3

On a charge that he had failed to pay £61 15s for meals and accommodation at the Exchanges Hotel. Lambton, Ernest Alfred Grice, 50,…

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Wheat Planting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 June 1932 · page 4

The total area planted to wheat in New South Wales in 1931 was 3,923,100 acres. Determination at this stage of the area planted and to be planted in 1932 can only…

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Russian Experiment Crop Sowing By Aeroplane LONDON, June 18

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 June 1932 · page 6

The "Sunday Observer's" Moscow representation states that experimental sowing from the air has been practised in various regions. The main disadvantage…

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Farmer Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 June 1932 · page 3

On a charge of having refused to pay for meals and accommodation provided at the Exchange Hotel. Lambton, Ernest Alfred Grice, 50, farmer, was remanded to…

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Wet Sheep "No Harm to Shearers" Arbitration Court Case Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1932 · page 8

The Federal Arbitration Court, which is hearing cross claims by the Graziers' Association and the Australian Workers' Union for variations of the pastoral…

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Wool Trade Grows Increase of Over 11,000 Bales Annual Figures Compared

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1932 · page 6

Railway figures disclose a big advance in the wool trade of the port of Newcastle. Figures for the year which will end on June 30 will disclose that over 11,000…

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