Trainees May Be Released to Gather Wheat
SYDNEY: The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) intends to ask the Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) to release farmers' sons and farm…
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Farming & the land, 1941
388 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 20
Council Entertained by Wool Firm
Winchcombe Carson Ltd entertained the aldermen and officers of Greater Newcastle Council at an informal luncheon at the company's new store…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →N.z. Killer Now Shooting Range Cattle for Food
AUCKLAND.—Stanley Graham, the Koiterangi killer, is now slaughtering his neighbors' range cattle for food. Carcases of fat bullocks and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Appraisements
Messrs. Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd., Newcastle, yesterday submitted to appraisement a representative catalogue of approximately 3500 bales drawn principally from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wet Weather Sheds Wanted for Wool
The Railway Commissioner could not, in the present financial position, provide additional siding or covered accommadation at Honeysuckle for the unloading of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Expensive Farm
LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.)—Built at a cost of £90,000,000 and seven years of labor, the Maginot Line is now a farm…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →America Down to Settles the Job Arthur Richards, special writer attached to "The Sun's" New York staff, visits Washington to find out at first-hand what is happening in the United States capital. He says that the honeymoon of guns and butter is over, and— (Washington, Sept. 20.—Air Mail)
THE honeymoon of guns and butter came to an end, appropriately enough, on the second anniversary of the outbreak of war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Knitting Ninety Tons of Wool
Women war workers in Australia will click their way with knitting needles through at least 90 tons of wool in the next 12 months. N. S. W…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bread And Butter
Can anyone teel me why is [?] that England, the seat of war and thousands to feed, can lately afford to lower the prices of bread and butter whilst in Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' Big Spurt in Great Britain
LONDON, September 14 (Air Mail).— Norfolk fenland (Eng.). 1000 acres of it, which less than six months ago was a waste of reeds and weeds, will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Says Shippers Must See to Bagged Wheat
"To make the silos at Newcastle a success, it is necessary that facilities be made available there for the loading of bagged wheat." said the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Bagging at Newcastle "Not Matter for Government"
The Provision of facilities for bagging wheat at the Newcastle terminal elevator was not one for his department, but for the shippers of wheat, the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Appraisements
Nenco offered a catalogue of 3880 bales yesterday. The selection was representative of most of the North, and included some attractive clips from the Hunter Valley…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wilt, Release Farm Workers for Harvesting
SYDNEY: Directions for the release of militia manpower to help the harvesting were issued to-day by Eastern Command headquarters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wet Weather Wool Shed
The Council of Newcastle Chamber of Commerce's representations regarding the erection in Newcastle of a shed for the unloading of wool in wet weather were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wants Prisoners Put on Farms
The employment of prisoners of war to relieve a shortage of labor required to harvest maturing crops was urged by Mr. P. Burgess at a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle to Have Record Wool Season
It is expected that by the end of the season on June 30. 1942 more than 120,000 bales of wool will have been received in Newcastle for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat for Poultry Farmers
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Sir Charles Marr (U.A.P., N.S.W.) asked the Minister for Commerce in the House of Representatives to give consideration to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Urgency Motion Defeated Payment of Subsidy to Dairy Farmers
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Voting on party lines, the Legislative Assembly today declined to consider a motion of urgency relating to the subsidy paid to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cheese Instead of Butter Plan for Changeover
CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Commonwealth Government has arranged to purchase all choicest and first-grade butter submitted for export at contract prices,…
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