Sell and Ship Wool at Newcastle
That before the next wool season all the wool-selling films would have wool stores in Newcastle was a hope expressed at a meeting of the Newcastle branch of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1940
861 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 44
Appraised Wool to Be Sold
The opening appraisement for the season under the British Government scheme for the purchase of Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Rumanian Wheat for Germany London
Experts in Bucharest estimate that Germany will receive no wheat from Rumania this year compared with 2,000,000 tons last year. Floods,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Rumanian Wheat for Reich
BUCHAREST, August 23.—Experts estimate that Germany will receive no wheat from Rumania this year, compared with 2,000,000 tons last year…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairymen's War Gift
BRISBANE, Friday.—To assist Australia's war effort the shareholders of the Caboolture Cooperative Dairy Association have decided to make a gift of 5/ to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat Board As Arbiter
CANBERRA, Sunday.—Disputes over wheat contracts which are overridden by the acquisition scheme in future will be settled by the Australian Wheat Board…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Should Be Scoured Here
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Condemning statements by Bradford wool men that only they can scour Australian wool properly, Mr. T. Sheehan, M.H.R. for Cook, said…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fairbridge Farm Boys for Australia Auckland
Twenty-eight British children have arrived at Auckland en route to Australia under the Fairbridge Farm School scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer Has Both Legs Broken
A bolting horse caused extensive leg injuries to-day to Everard Caban, 39, farmer, of Yango Creek, near Wollombi…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →September Dairy Quotas
MELBOURNE, Monday,—The Dairy produce Equalisation Committee announced to-day that the quotas in September were— Butter 54 per cent., choose 39 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Citrus Crop Failures Sydney
Fruit crops in many parts of the State will fail this year as a result of the continued drought. Hundreds of citrus growers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Store Nearly Ready
The £60,000 wool store for Pitt, Son and Badgery, in Darby-street, Newcastle, is expected to be completed within the next 10 days. It was announced some…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Board Urged to Conserve Seed
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Because some districts will not harvest enough wheat this season to provide seed for next year, the President of the Wheatgrowers'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairymen and Milk Board Vote for All Urged by P.P.U. Council
A resolution that all milk producers be entitled to a vote in the selection of the Milk Board personnel was adopted by the District Council of the Primary…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Butter Ration to Be Cut
LONDON August 28.—The combined butter and margarine ration will be reduced to 4oz. a head a week from September 2, it is announced…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle's First Wool Appraised
Government experts to-day began in Newcastle the first appraisement for the season under the British Government…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Appraisement Begins in Newcastle
The first appraisement of wool at Newcastle for the season, under the Government's war-time scheme for the sale of the Australian clip to England, began to-day and will be completed tomorrow. Picture shows part of the offering by "Nenco" and Pitt. Son and Badgery at "Nenco's" wool store at Wickham. About 4000 bales were offered. insets show (left), Mr. L. Carrington and (right). Mr. N. Laycock, two of the Government appraisers at work this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Help Dairy Farmers
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Treasurer (Mr. Richardson) announced to-day that the Government had arranged for advances to be made, where necessary, to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Output Down Dairy Company Had Dry Year
"The question of increasing the output of the farms should have the attention of every supplier, since it is by increasing production that costs may be reduced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Must Conserve Water Dairymen Want Action
"It is distressing to see the condition of things in parts of the Upper Hunter," the Mayor of Dungog (Ald. R. L. Fitzgerald) told shareholders of the Raymond…
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