Trade and Finance Market Review Wheat Makes Partial Recovery Pool Controls Onions Potato Supply Improves Farm Produce
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 8
Onions rose in price and potatoes fell in the Newcastle farm produce market this week. Shipments of Victorian potatoes are increasing, and the Victorian Onion…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Still Declining Butter Production Big Low Grade Surplus Melbourne
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 4
Butter production is still declining in all States, but more hopeful signs are indicated in this week's reports, which show that good rain has fallen in several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hexham Bridge Conference to be Held Farmers Favour Ash Island
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 16
The Secretary of the Raymond Terrace Chamber of Commerce (Mr. C. H. Nurse) has issued on invitation to the various public bodies in the district to attend a…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Vestal Chosen Second at Warwick Farm
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 20
IF VESTAL meets with ordinary luck in the Granville Novice Handicap this Pantheon filly should show the way home, She won a Maiden Handicap at Rosehill…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Wheat Is Firmer Hen and Case Eggs Advance
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 2
A stronger market continued to rule for wheat at Newcastle to-day at 3s 11 d a bushel for new season silo. This is an advance of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Fatality Youth Killed When Rifle Discharged
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 9
Thomas Boland, 18, of Quirindi, was fatally shot at his employer's dairy farm near Quirindi about 4 p.m. yesterday. His employer was examining a loaded…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Victoria Is Largest Tobacco Producer This Year's Crop Canberra
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 6
Australia's tobacco production for the current season just ending will be about 6,500,000lb. Figures for all States are complete, excepting Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ajax to Race at Warwick Farm Sydney
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 9
Ajax win nave his first race of the autumn in Sydney in the Chipping Norton Plate. The decision to run Ajax will add considerable interest to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Butter for Export Sydney
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 4
In the week ended March 26 the Commonwealth graders examined for export the following quantities, in boxes, of butter.—Sydney: Salted 4636, unsalted 742,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Potatoes Easier Wheat Again Firms
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 2
Increased supplies of Tasmanian potatoes and the easier disposition of the market were responsible for a sharp drop in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Values Unchanged Sheep at Homebush SYDNEY
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 4
Conditions in the sheep section at Homebush to-day were generally unchanged. Values remained at last day's buoyant levels for the penning of 39,550, which, as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bullocks Scarce Calves and Sheep Firm Maitland Stock Markets
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 4
Bullocks were scarce in a yarding of about 900 cattle at the Maitland stock markets yesterday. The yarding also included about 120 head in the cracker…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Competition Keen Wool Sales in Sydney SYDNEY
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 4
At the wool sales to-day, an average to good selection, comprising 10,087 bales, was offered. Sales at auction totalled 8920 bales, and 707 bales were sold privately…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Poisoned Butter Suspected Dog Got in First—and Died Sydney
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 7
Detective-Sergeant Arnold, who left Sydney last week to investigate a case of poisoning at Lockhart, is now investigating another matter at Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Sales Good Sydney Clearance SYDNEY
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 10
Of the 10,135 bales offered at auction at the wool sales to-day, 9,334 were sold. An additional 1,008 bales were disposed of privately…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Record Year Wool Sales in Newcastle 33,000 Bales Expected
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 8
It is expected that by June 33,000 bales of wool will have been sold in Newcastle, making a record year. It will be 7000 bales more than last year…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sheep Industry Affected by Dry Weather Hand-feeding Costs Big Sums SYDNEY
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 8
Drought in the country districts of New South Wales has affected the sheep industry to a greater extent this year than at any period since…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Canadian Wheat Passes Many Tests In England LONDON, March 10
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 8
Farmers or western Canada were recently advised that Thatcher wheat a new variety which resists rust, has passed milling and baking…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Big Drop in Wheat in Sydney Sydney
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 31 March 1938 · page 11
Wheat quotations fell 3½d a bushel in Sydney to-day, compared with yesterday's top rate. This is the sharpest drop for some time…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Severe Drought Sheep Industry Suffers Worst for 36 Years Sydney
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 March 1938 · page 7
The Manager of the stock department of the Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co. Ltd. (Mr. C. E. Walder) said to-day that drought conditions in the…
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