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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1938

1,575 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 79

Market Firm Sydney Wool Sales SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 4

An average to good selection comprising 9568 bales was offered at the wool sales to-day. Sales at auction totalled 7400 bales, and 1602 were…

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Farmers Unite Market Regulation Conference Views Formation of Commodity Councils SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 8

Unity, which the British delegation said was essential, has been achieved by the Empire Producers' Conference…

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Farmer on Trial Charged with Murder of Nephew Fatal Knife Wound Ipswich

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 8

The trial began to-day of John Henry Geiger, 59, a farmer, on a charge of having wilfully murdered his nephew, Alan Henry Dalrymple…

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Two-acre Farming in Crowded Japan

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 6

Japan's great and ever increasing problem of over-population is at the bottom of all the great events and changes which overshadow the East to-day; and its import…

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Germany's Artificial Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 8

The greatest criticism of "Zellwoole" (German artificial wool) as a competitor of wool is that while most of the civil population of Germany is dressed in…

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Butter Poisoned Detectives to Investigate Dog's Death SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 9

A dog belonging to Alfred James Day, 25, a labourer, died after it had forced open a safe and eaten some butter at Wagga on March 27. The Government Analyst…

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Wool Firm Good Sales in Sydney SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 6

All sections of the wool market operated keenly at the sales to-day, and prices remained firm at the previous day's rates for all descriptions…

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Wool Transactions Inner Mongolia Seeks Monopoly TOKIO, April 5

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 10

The Inner Mongolian Government is authorising the formation of an association, comprising Mitsui and other leading Japanese firms, also Chinese…

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Wool Sales To-morrow by Nenco 3369 Bales From North and North-west

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 4

Nenco will hold its tenth wool sales of the season at Tyrrell House to-morrow, commencing at 2.30 p.m., when 3369 bales, drawn principally from the…

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Use Electricity Bureaux to Induce Farmers Suggestion at Conference Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 10

The apathy of farmers towards electricity was deplored by Mr. D. C. McVea (Mullumbimby), at the electricity supply engineers' conference to-day. He…

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Competition Good Sydney Wool Sales SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 6

Of the 9842 bales offered at auction at the wool sales to-day, 8440 bales were sold. An additional 1022 bales were disposed of privately. The selection was…

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Japanese Wool Monopoly Protest Made by British Interests London

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 8

The British Ambassador in China has been ordered to investigate reports that the Japanese in North China are establishing a wool…

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Wool Requirements Japan to Buy in Australia TOKIO, April 6

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 10

A leading woollen manufacturer told the representative of the Australian Associated Press that he expected that Australia would supply 70 or 80 per cent. of the…

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Swedish Ship Was on Fire Copra and Wheat Damaged London

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 1

The Swedish motorship Tisnaren, from Sydney to Hull and Oslo, caught fire in the Thames to-day. No. 1 forehold blazed fiercely…

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Wool Marketing Effect of Empire Scheme Conference Debate Request for Legislation SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 10

At the Empire Producers' Conference to-day it was stated that graziers' representatives were opposed to marketing control legislation if it affected their own…

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Wool Income Is Lower Falling Of More Than £15,000,000 SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 1

Total realisations of wool sold in the Commonwealth during the nine months ended March 31, 1938. as compared with the figures for the corresponding…

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Market Buoyant Newcastle Wool Sale Bidding Well Sustained

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 20

The 10th wool sale in Newcastle was held yesterday when the New England. North and North-West Producers' Co. Ltd. submitted a catalogue of 3370 bales…

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Shipping, Mails and Markets Fodder Is Dearer Wheat Firmer

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 2

Through acute shortage owing to the dry weather the prices of fodder lines took a sharp rise in Newcastle to-day…

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Wool Monopoly Japanese Plan Disturbs Britain Prime Minister Acts London, April 6

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 14

The Prime Minister (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) has asked the British Ambassador to China to investigate reports that Japanese in North China are establishing…

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Central Control Farmers' Organisations Conference Ends Empire Liaison Committee SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 14

The Empire Producers' Conference, which ended to-day, decided that it was desirable to set up an Empire producers' organisation, and that the chairmen of…

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