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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
861 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 44
"Nothing short of a catastrophe for the Botch dairying industry" is the newspaper "Handelsblad's" description of Britain's decision to ration butter…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Oriental Development Company is preparing to send in the Spring from Korea to Inner Mongolia 4000 to 6000 sheep bred on the Keigen pastures from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Results of field tests with tractors equipped with producer gas plants are contained in a thesis presented to the University of Western Australia by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers would support a scheme such as that proposed by the Deputy-Leader of the Country Party (Mr. Thorby) for compulsory insurance of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During the last twelve months research on behalf of wool has made advances beyond all expectations, and the International Wool Secretariat in London has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two German raiders, which tried to sink a British warship to-day in the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland, succeeded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Director of Dairying (Mr. Ballhausen) announced to-day that during the week ended December 20, 90.9 per cent, of the boxes of butter examined by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter production for the year ended last June amounted to 50,822 tons, of which 12,122 tons were exported. Cheese production was about 3200 tons, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy production has fallen off rapidly in the Maitland district owing to tile dry spell. This was reported to a meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A request that an embargo be placed on the export of sheepskins from Australia to all countries other than to England and France was made to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The preliminary operations in the appraisement of the Southern wool clip began to-day. The work is expected to be completed on Monday, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The purchase of cotton goods instead of wool by Government departments was criticised by the New South Wales Graziers' Association to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Stock Inspector (Mr. E. A. Lucas) reported at a meeting of Maitland Pastures Protection Board, at West Maitland, yesterday, that dairy production…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →During 1938-30, 379 farmers went bankrupt in Australia. The figure includes those who entered into compositions and deeds of arrangement…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fears are felt by many firms that Australia's butter export trade after the war will be injured as the result of British rationing. Firms lamenting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →With the object of stimulating the export of wool fabrics, the Wool Control Committee has announced a scheme under which manufacturers will receive an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →For the first wool appraisement at Hobart this season catalogues totalling 19,500 bales are offered. The quantity allotted the first Tasmanian…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An inquest was held at West Maitland Courthouse yesterday into the death of Leslie Richard Borstel, 26, a farmer, who was found hanging by a set of harness…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Australians may send gifts of butter, sugar and other Roods to their friends and relatives in England, where these foods ore being rationed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Districts on the western side of Lake Macquarie are suffering an acute shortage of water. Drought conditions have seriously depleted private tanks in areas…
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