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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1937

1,722 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 87

World's Wheat Statistician's Survey Outlook in Australia Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 4

In a summary of the wheat situation, just issued by the Commonwealth Statistician, It is stated that the trend of international trade in wheat and flour still…

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Sydney Wool Sales Keen Competition: Market Firm SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 6

With overseas competitors bidding keenly, the beet classes of wool sold at rates comparable with those of the previous sales at the wool auctions to-day…

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New Premises Gloucester Dairy Company MODERN £30,000 Factory Gloucester

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 7

Twenty-nine years' successful operation by the Gloucester Cooperative Dairy Company Ltd, culminated in the official opening to-day of an ultra-modern butter…

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Fairbridge Farm School System Rhodesian Offer London

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 1

Rev. A. G. B. West, of St. Duntan's who was in Australia from 1896 to 1908 and is now a member of the council of the Fairbridge Farm…

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London Wool Sales London, April 21

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 10

At the London wool ales the offerings include 18,050 bales from Australia and 31,159 bales from New Zealand…

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Last Wool Sales in Sydney Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 9

With today's sales the last of the wool season buyers filled late orders and all sections competed briskly. Germany paid the early top price,…

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Sydney Wool Sales Vigorous Competition SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 6

With the Sydney wool selling season drawing to a conclusion, bidding was keen at the sales to-day. Buyers competed vigorously to secure the best lots on…

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Party From East Study of Sheep Breeding Problems BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 6

Dr. Ohtsu, an industrial expert, of Kogen Province, Chosen, and a party of Japanese experts, arrived in Brisbane yesterday by the steamer Muroran Maru…

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Equalisation Plan Butter Marketing Support Pledged Factory Representatives Confer SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 7

A conference of dairying interests to-day discussed the effect of the referendum on marketing and declared for referendum support of the equalisation plan…

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Supplies Short Butter in New South Wales Buying From Other States Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 6

The Commonwealth Diary Produce Equalisation Committee has been advised that a butter shortage exists in New South Wales, extending into the Riverina…

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Not Likely to Be a Wool Rival Australian Tours Manchukuo Tokio

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 8

Mr. J. A. Boyd, a former member of the Victorian Parliament, who has been on a tour of Manchukuo, Korea and Japan, state that he is convinced…

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Rain Needed For Lower Hunter Crops Review of Prospects

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 11

Farmers of the lower Hunter River district state that, notwithstanding the showery weather experienced recently, the whole district is in need of a good…

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Wages Subsidy Youths on Farms Queensland Scheme Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 10

Details of a Government scheme to subsidise wages paid to youths on farms were announced by the Minister for Labour (Mr. M. P. Hyne) to-day…

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Quail Banned Federal Veto on N.S.W. Permit "Menace to Farmers" Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 9

No further consignment of Californian quail for sporting purposes will be admitted into Australia, and action will probably be taken by the Commonwealth…

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To Cheapen Bread Farmers to Help Women Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 9

Wheatgrowers have a plan to mill 2,000,000 bushels of their wheat into flour from which bread can be made at a…

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Tractors Favored in New Zealand Farmers Seek to Save Wages Christchurch (N.z.)

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 9

One effect of the Government's regulation of wages on farms has been an unprecedented demand for tractors. There has never been a period…

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Wool in Manchukuo

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 14

Tokio, April 21.—Mr. J. A. Boyd, a former member of the Victoria Parliament, who has been on a tour of Manchukuo, Korea and Japan, states that he…

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Tightened Belt Bullets Before Butter

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 4

Yesterday a three-line cable item showed Germany passing another milestone on the steep road to ruin…

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Manning Butter Pay Taree

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 10

Manning River Co-operative Dairy Society paid £23,680/2/9 to 747 suppliers in March. This was at the rate of 11d per lb for choicest and 10d per 1b for second-class butter. It was the…

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Short Supplies Butter in Tasmania MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 14

Following its declaration yesterday of a butter shortage for southern New South Wales, the Equalisation Committee Ltd. to-day officially advised that a shortage…

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