Patrolman Killed by Sheep Truck Melbourne
While working on the Calder Highway, near Gisborne, to-day, Edmund Patrick Coghlan, 31, a Roads Beard patrolman, was Killed instantly when a motor-truck…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1940
861 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 44
Canada Stops Wheat Exports to the Soviet Ottawa
The Canadian Government will prevent further exports of wheat to Russia. Ten days ago 1,000,000 bushels of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canadian Wheat Not for Soviet Prevent Aid to Germany (Australian Associated Press.) OTTAWA, January 24
The Canadian Government will prevent further exports of wheat to Russia. By an Order-in-Council, the export of wheat and other goods to continues adjacent…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cattle Dearer at Waratah
There was a moderate supply. of cattle at the Newcastle Abattoir saleyards at Waratah yesterday, the bulk of which consisted of cows and heifers with a fair…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Agents' Commission on Bulk Wheat Sydney
Contending that the payment to farmers of an agent's commission on bulk wheat is unjustified, the Graziers' Association of N.S.W. has asked the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Don't Be Bluffed" Higher Butter Price Discussed SYDNEY
The problem of increasing the price of butter and cheese without stimulating the consumption of butter substitutes was discussed at the annual meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Adelaide Wool Appraisement Adelaide
Prices for Adelaide's fifth wool appraisement were made available to-day. A total of 47,509 bales were dealt with, compared with 52,421 bales at the fourth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →More Wool for Hosiery London, December 16
More wool is to be available for the manufacture of civilian hosiery. The Hosiery Wool Rationing Committee at Leicester stated that the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Investigation Into Newtown Wheat-bag Slashing Sydney
Detectives and Railway investigators to-day commenced a search for the person who, at Newtown last night, slashed 20 bags of wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coastal Dairy Farm Competitions
Entries for the coastal dairy farm competitions, conducted by the "Farmer and Settler," in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture, Milk Board,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boys' Farm Home Burglary Action Taken Against Officers SYDNEY
Grave laxity in certain sections of the administration of the Mittagong farm home for boys had been found by the Public Service Board, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairying Districts Need Rain Production Declining MELBOURNE
The Dairy Board's weekly review states that Queensland experienced heavy thunderstorms last week-end over a wide dairying area, also a heat wave daring…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland, Cessnock, Kurri West Maitland Dairy Production Down Shortage of Feed and Water
Conditions in the Maitland district are not as bad as they were in January last year, but the outlook is becoming more serious daily, according to the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Review of Wheat Contracts Committee Will Make Adjustments Exchange of Old Season's Crop Sydney
A committee has been appointed by the Australian Wheat Board to review pre-war contracts made between growers and millers and merchants for exchange…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Indian Wheat Acreage Calcutta, January 26
The first official Indian estimate of wheat acreage is announced as 32,380,000 acres…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Threatened by Fire—being Probed by Police Launceston
A charred newspaper was found inside the main door of a store on Inspection Head wharf early yesterday. It had apparently been ignited and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm Instructor Transferred
When the Plattsburg Rural School reopens to-morrow it will be without the services of its agricultural instructor, Mr. F. Breakwell, who has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Crop May Be Near Record 204,000,000 Bushels Expected SYDNEY
The Chairman of the Australian Wheat Board (Mr. C. McPherson) said it appeared that the Australian wheat crop for the 1939-40 season would approximate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stored Wheat May Deteriorate Mr. Thorby's Concern SYDNEY
The Australian wheat position was still full of difficulties, declared the Deputy Federal Leader of the Country Party (Mr. H. V. C. Thorby) in a broadcast…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tons of Butter Washed Ashore London
Residents of a town on the south-east coast of Scotland have obtained lavish supplies of butter. Tons of butter have been washed…
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