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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
861 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 44
BRITAIN'S 300,000 farms are working overtime to help keep the nation's food larders filled in the hour of danger. Every development of agricultural science will be applied to them in ensuing months to reduce the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Despite the occasional tendency to cold, westerly winds, weather conditions continue ideal for the home gardener, but unless good rain is received within the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In a review of weather conditions and production prospects for all States, the Dairy Produce Board said to-day that in Victoria light to moderate rain in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne, Friday.—James Spence, 37, farm labourer, of Bacchus Marsh, who was convicted of having wounded Anthony Younger, a Bacchus Marsh…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CANBERRA, Sunday.—Shortage of shipping space has hampered the export of Australian primary produce, but the Commonwealth schemes of acquisition…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, June 30.—The new rationing period for wool begins next week. It is expected that the Wool Control will decide to issue a temporary civilian ration…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—"There is practically no limitation to women's work on farms," the Premier (Mr. Mair) said yesterday. He added that women land…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Better meat for the housewife would result if cattle were allowed at least a day's rest before being slaughtered. The General Manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Desperately bad" was the way the Stock Inspector (Mr. E. A. Lucas) described the pastoral and agricultural outlook in the district at a meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CANBERRA, Tuesday.—A report by the Australian Wheat Board to the Agricultural Council to-day reveals that a safe estimate of Australian wheat sales this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.—It is officially, estimated that 57,100,100 bushels of wheat will be in storage in the four main wheat-producing States on November 30…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New South Wales wheat farmers, with those in other States, are facing one of the most serious problems in the history of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The General Council of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales decided to-day to urge the Railway Department to provide…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Delegates at a meeting of the Hunter Group of Agricultural Associations at West Maitland yesterday decided to offer their services regarding primary…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Reid) announced to-day that it had been decided to take a ballot on August 27 of poultry farmers outside…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. J. Humbles has been granted a renewal of the farm property of the Hunter Water Board at Duckenfield, at £130 per annum for three years…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Friday.—The weekly report of the Dairy Produce Board stated to-day that there had been in Victoria mild cloudy weather with light scattered showers in southern…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London has 2,000,000 homes, 1,000,000 of which have gardens big enough for the growing of food, but only 400,000 have been so converted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, July 7.—Still further accentuating the threat of famine in Europe, the Soviet's appropriation of territories in Bessarabia and Bukovina means the loss…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A shortage of butter and cheese in New South Wales and of butter in Tasmania has been declared by the Equalisation Committee…
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