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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
1,722 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 87
A hectic world scramble for raw materials, particularly metals required for arms and munitions, is forcing up prices to new levels. Speculators are active. The excitement has spread to the wheat and cotton markets,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. J. M. Dunningham) stated yesterday that the Labour and Industry Department's training farm for boys, at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The wool sales concluded at Adelaide to-day. It was a most successful season. The top price for greasy wool was 27d. There was a good clearance, 95 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Equalisation Committee Ltd. decided to-day to call a meeting of all Victorian butter manufacturers for April 7, to place before them the position of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →On account of a shortage in the South Island, the Wheat Committee is importing about 1000 tons of Australian milling wheat, which will be distributed for…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Commonwealth Statistician (Dr. R. Wilson) estimates the total Australian wheat crop for this year at 137,397,000 bushels. This is 25,000,000 bushels below…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The rates for war risks on dairy produce consigned to England and the Continent have been considerably increased by the Dairy Produce Board. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A particularly strong market ruled at the Christchurch wool sales to-day, and prices all round were fully 1d higher than at the last Christchurch sales. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The business transacted at a conference of representatives of Milk Producers' Association's held in Sydney recently, was reviewed by the President (Mr. S. Hicks),…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Another rise in the price of flour in Britain is expected this week. It rose 1s a sack three times last week, and is now 42/-or 50 per cent. more than a year ago. A rise of 1s is expected, to mean an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Primary producers organisations will institute a vigorous campaign to prevent speculators from upsetting butter prices, it was announced to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A motion that a levy should be placed on wheat to build up an organisation to gather oversea information was carried at the annual conference of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Opening up of Barkly Tableland, in the Northern Territory, by carrying in sheep by air is one of the proposals of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy cattle was scarce in a yarding of about 800 head at the Maitland stock markets yesterday. The bulk of the consignments comprised light weights, but cow beef was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Following the rejection of the marketing referendum, representatives of the Commonwealth Butter Equalisation Committee assembled in Sydney to-day to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Values at the Sydney wool sales, which were resumed to-day, showed an advance of from 5 to 7½ per cent., compared with the rates ruling at the end of last series in Sydney. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Satisfied that the Barkly Tableland is eminently suitable for sheep raising, but realising the difficulties associated with the droving of sheep from there to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Values in the Sydney wheat market jumped sharply 1¾d to 2d a bushel to-day, making the price only a penny a bushel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →For the conversion of officers' quarters into flats at the Gosford Farm Home for Boys, two tenders were opened yesterday by the Tender Board, Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During the week ended March 13 the Commonwealth graders examined for export from Newcastle 5041 boxes salted and 562 boxes unsalted butter…
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