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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1935

2,082 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 105

Wool Buyer False Pretences Charge Remanded in Sydney Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 8

Alleged to have obtained 55 bales of wool, valued at £700, by false pretences, John Gilbert Snelling, 40, wool buyer, was remanded at the Central Police Court…

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Cane Crops Saved Rain in North Queensland BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 7

Following general falls of from two to five inches over the north of the Queensland sugar belt, cane crops which had been greatly affected by heat have been…

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Melbourne Wool Market MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 8

Owing to keen, and animated competition, a 90 per cent. clearance was effected at the wool sales to-day, when 7943 bales were submitted at auction…

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"Poor Prospects" Cattle Men in Small Way BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 9

Returning from a periodical inspection of his firm's station properties in the Northern Territory, Mr. A. E. Moray, Pastoral inspector of Vestey's. Ltd., who arrived…

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American Market Australian Butter Special Difficulties (Australian Press Association.) New York, January 21

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 8

The Australian Press Association learns that experimental shipments of Australian and New Zealand butter have reached New York from London in the past 10…

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Bradford Wool Large German Purchases Orders Still Coming in London, January 22

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 8

The "Yorkshire Observer" says: "One of the factors mainly responsible for the strength of the Bradford wool tops market in the past month or two is the export…

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Farmers Relief Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 8

In answer to Mr. M. Kilpatrick (U.C.P., Wagga), who asked that when the Farmers Relief Act was being amended provision be made for farmers who had…

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Guidance in Farming Scientists Discuss Its Problems Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 10

Consideration of certain of the problems of rural industries, rather than expansion, was advocated by Mr. E. B. Hudson in an address at the…

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Stations Raided Thieves in Motor-trucks Wool and Wheat Stolen Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 8

A gang of thieves operating with motor-trucks in the past two or three weeks has raided stations and railway sidings and stolen wool and bagged wheat, valued…

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Good Competition Wool Sales in Sydney SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 8

Of the 12,178 bales offered at the Sydney wool sales to-day. 10,346 were sold at auction and an additional 1779 sold privately. The selection was good…

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High Butter Prices Bolstering Industry Opposition at Commerce Conference Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 6

The dairy farmer would be forced out of the industry if he were not protected, declared Mr. H. M. Russell, opposing a motion at the annual conference of the…

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MAITLAND—CESSNOCK—KURRI West Maitland Farm Worker Drowned in Hunter River

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 9

Thomas Francis McNamaro, 29, a farm labourer, of Melville, via Aberglassyn, employed by Mr. Andrew Leahy, of Melville, was drowned in the Hunter River…

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Northern Town Lights Smoke Fires to Check Mosquito Hordes Even Cattle Tormented Boggabilla in Grip of Flood Pest Fires in Shops, Yards, and Even Paddocks Pall of Smoke Over the Town Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 13

The mosquito plague at Boggabilla is growing worse. Even inside the shops smoke fires are burning. Station owners, too, are lighting fires in their paddocks to protect tormented cattle from the vicious…

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Newcastle Show Wheat and Wool Exhibit Numerous Horse Entries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 11

Outstanding, among the exhibits at the. Newcastle Show next month will be a wool, wheat, and other products display from the North and North-west of the…

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The Themistocles Comprehensive Cargo Butter and Frozen Meat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 12

The port of Newcastle has been fully occupied with shipping during the past fortnight. There has constantly been a scene of hustle and bustle at the wharves,…

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Son of "Sheep King" Found Dead London

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 1

Thomas O Murray, described as the son of an Australian "wool king," was found dead to-day in the study of his Northumberland farm. As shotgun…

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Well-grown Wool Sydney Values Maintained SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 14

Values for all well-grown wools were sustained at the Sydney wool sales today, but faulty wool was irregular. A good selection The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association…

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Mosquitoes Moved on Welcomed Breeze at Boggabilla Sheep Are Suffering Boggabilla

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 9

After a stifling night, through which residents had to tend smoke fires to keep off the relentless mosquito swarms, Boggabilla…

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Prison Farm System Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 23

The Queensland prison farm system was ahead of anything he had seen in the South declared the Home Secretary (Mr. E. M. Hanlon) to-day, on his return from…

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Farm Workers' Insurance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 14

London, January 24.—The report of the Government Committee, issued yesterday, recommends the adoption of a scheme of compulsory unemployment insurance for…

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