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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1934

1,963 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 99

Wheat Market Lindley Walker Review Overseas Uncertainty Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1934 · page 11

The Lindley Walker Wheat Company, commenting on the world's wheat position, says that the two-sided nature of the overseas markets has been most apparent of late, buyers and…

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Wool Sales Brisbane Market Higher Season's Record for Scoured Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1934 · page 8

Under good general competition in all sections, prices at the wool sales, which opened to-day, were fully 15 per cent. higher than Brisbane November rates…

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Wool Next Japanese Bid for Trade Australia Concerned London, January 29

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1934 · page 7

The "Daily Express" says: "Japan is impartial Lancashire is staggeriug under the 'yellow' cotton offensive, It will be Yorkshire's , turn next, Japan his…

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Cruelty Charges "Jumping for Hours" Yanco Welfare Farm Leeton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1934 · page 7

When the inquiry into allegations of cruelty against the Superintendent and other officials of the Yanco Welfare Farm was resumed to-day, William Wearne of…

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Bush Fires Blamed Poultry Farmer's Bankruptcy

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 January 1934 · page 7

A laborer, who stated at Newcastle Bankruptcy Court this afternoon that he had been a mixed farmer, attributed his…

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Kicked and Punched Boys in Yanco Farm Home Visitor's Story Leeton

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 January 1934 · page 7

Describing it as "something not one of us will ever forget," Leslie Henry Levine, journalist, in evidence…

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Wheat Issues Tangle the Delegates London

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 1

After discussions lasting all day, delegates to the wheat advisory committee dispersed late this afternoon, very weary and with little progress…

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Wheat Commission Date for Sitting Not Fixed SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 8

The Chairman of the Federal Wheat Commission (Sir Herbert Gepp) stated to-night that the date for the initial sitting of the Commission had not yet been…

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Record Wool Price 46¼d a lb for Scoured BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 7

Another price record was created at the wool sales to-day, when 46¼d a lb was paid for five bales of scoured wool. This is the highest Australian price for…

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World Wheat Larger Exports Needed Liquidate Surplus London Committee's Views (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, January 29

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 8

After reviewing the world situation for two months, the Wheat Advisory Committee has concluded that exports in 1935 must be much larger in order to enable…

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Royal Show Junior Farmers Section Dog Judges Appointed Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 2

At a meeting of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wale it as decided to include a Junior Farmers' Section at the 1935 Royal Easter…

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Dairy Produce Was Quiet Maize Slightly Higher Newcastle Markets

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 2

Business was quiet on the Newcastle dairy produce market to-day, owing to the usual end of the month slackness…

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Waratah Stock Sales Cattle

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 18

There was a good supply of cattle yarded at Newcastle Stock Sales today, to a large attendance. The offering included practically all descriptions…

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British Wheat Committee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 11

London, January 30.—The Wheat Committee, at a protracted sitting, discussed the report of the sub-committees dealing respectively with marketing and increased…

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Butter Output World Restriction Plan Conference at Rome Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 11

Resulting from a decision made at the World Economic Conference, in London last year another conference, which had been convened to discuss the possibility…

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Immediate Start Terminal Wheat Elevator Land Resumed Carrington Council's Error

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 8

Inquiries in Newcastle yesterday disclosed that the Railway Department intends to make an immediate start with the construction of railway connections…

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Wheat Inquiry Final Arrangements Made Commissioners Enlist Aid Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 10

Final arrangements prior to the inquiry into the wheat industry by the Federal Royal Commission were completed to-day by the Chairman of the Commission (Sir…

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"Boys Punched" Yanco Welfare Farm Stories of Ex-inmates Leeton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 16

Giving evidence to-day at the inquiry into the conduct of the Yanco Welfare Farm for Boys. Ernest Edward Cooper, 19 of Leeton said that while an inmate…

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Saw Boys Bashed? Yanco Farm Lad's Accusations "Hated the Place" Leeton

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 13

Edward Joseph Donoughue, a former inmate of the Yanco Welfare Farm, declared at the inquiry to-day that he had seen…

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Homebush Sales Sheep and Cattle Increase SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 6

In the sheep section at Homebush to-day the increase of 12,000 in the supply was responsible for the market ruling firm, with a tendency to become dearer as the sales progressed. The…

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