Newcastle Wool Appraisements
Nenco reports that appraisement catalogue No. 58, the 15th of the season, was completed, 1372 bales being submitted. As usual, this time of the…
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Farming & the land, 1943
439 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 22
Cattle Die from Eating Tree Seeds
GRAFTON, Friday.—Serious mortality has occurred among cattle in the Grafton district as the result of eating seeds of tung oil trees,…
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Mr. John Scarr has been appointed General Manager of the Raymond Terrace Cooperative Dairy and Produce Co. Ltd., whose…
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SYDNEY.—Direct approach to the Prices Commissioner (Professor Copland) is to be made by the Minister for Commerce (Mr…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Collective farming, where manpower and machinery resources are pooled, may develop in Australia as a result of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Subsidy Not Yet Determined
CANBERRA.—The amount of Increased Federal assistance to the dairy Industry cannot be finally fixed until the investigation of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter and Guns
LONDON, April 19.—Further evidence of the extent to which the attention of Britain is focussed on events in the Pacific is contained…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Butter rationing was not likely to be instituted for some months, if at all If it was at all possible, it would be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Help Farmers Mobile Labour Pool From Army
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Important decisions, all designed to assist primary production, were announced by the Director-General of Manpower…
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GRAFTON, Thursday.—At to-day's meeting of Copmanhurst Shire Council advice was received from the Department of Public Health of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Sun" Short Story. Farm Girl
Hobbs stood there in the ring quietly winding all that heavy tape around Willy's big fists…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairymen Seek Butter Price Rise
Dairy farmers decided at West Maitland to ask the Prime Minister to increase the price of butter by 37-8d a lb, as recommended by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Children Die in Farm Fire
NEW YORK—Three children. Marline Clark 7. Anne Marie 2. ber sister. and Keith Parks, 6 their cousin. were burned to death…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Trade Prepares for Peace
LONDON, Monday.—Disposal of huge war-time accumulations of wool will present a problem when peace…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How Wool Industry Has Triumphed in Newcastle
THE wool trade is now so well established in Newcastle that it is fitting to review circumstances surrounding the establishment of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Given "Dirty Cattle Trucks" Transcontinental Travel for Troops
KALGOORLIE, Tuesday.—Criticising travelling conditions for troops on the transcontinental line, the Mayor of Kalgoorlie (Cr. Moore)…
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CANBERRA.—Special staffs in State Statisticians' offices have begun the huge task of tabulating 20.000,000 facts supplied by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stockowners Sought Help for Farmer's Family
GRAFTON, Wednesday.—A letter was received by South Grafton Council from the President of the Stock-owners' League, asking permission to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sold Eggs to Friends Poultry Farmer Fined
Arthur George Friday, poultry farmer, of Mount Hutton, was fined £5, with £2/10/ costs, by Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., at Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pool Farm Machinery State Scheme to Aid Production
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A scheme allowing the farming machinery of the State to be pooled and made mobile for use in whatever district…
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