Junior Farmers at Wallsend
Prizes given by Ald. Scott-Daisley for Junior Farmer competitions were presented at a function at Wallsend when a moving picture…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1944
535 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 27
Irrigation May Cease Bolwarra Farms Suffer
Unless heavy rain falls on the watershed of the Hunter, Bolwarra farmers will have to cease pumping for irrigation within a few days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Riot In New York Store
NEW YORK, Dec. 10. A.A.P.—Nearly 200 women staged a two-hour riot and cleaned out the complete stocks of butter and sugar at a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Power for Farms Aim of New Bill
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Under a bill to establish all electricity development authority in New South Wales to coordinate existing power…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Call on Wheat to Feed Stock
SYDNEY, Monday.—More than 1000 25-ton railway trucks are required each week to take wheat to drought areas, where thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Poultry Farmers Ask for More Feed
Concerned at the cessation of supplies if meatmeal and the shortage of crushed wheat, a deputation (Messrs. F. Ray, F. Harrington, F…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Half Crop Lost Lower Hunter Potatoes
Fifty per cent. of the potatoes planted in the Lower Hunter district had been lost, according to growers who met at West Maitland last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Compensation Wanted for Crop Failures
Potato growers in the Lower Hunter district who met at West Maitland last night, decided to ask the Government that growers whose crops had failed be compensated for seed, fertiliser and labor costs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Less Butter for Canadians
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The High Commissioner for Canada (Mr. Justice Davis.) said that Canadian wartime Prices and Trade Board had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Use Army Trucks to Cart Poultry Wheat
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Unless poultry farmers in the Robertson electorate received more wheat for poultry feed within a week, very severe…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Synthetic for Wool Claim in England
LONDON, Dec. 12. A.A.P.—Wool has another synthetic competitor, according to an announcement by imperial Chemical Industries of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wartime Drop in Crops Rise in Vegetables
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Australia's area under all crops, including wheat, vegetables and fruit, dropped from 23,500,000 acres in 1938-39 to 15,900,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Offset Effects of Drought P.P.U. Seeks Rise in Butter Subsidy
SYDNDEY, Wednesday.— The quarterly meeting of the Primary Producers' Union canried a motion requesting that the subsidy for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Farmers Reach N.z
AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Wednesday, —Six representatives of the Farmers' Union from England, wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, headed by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmer Fined Exposed Liquor for Sale
Remanded to Clarence Town Court for penalty after his conviction on charges of having, at Glen William on September 1, exposed liquor for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Power for Tumbi Farmers
GOSFORD, Wednesday.—Residents of the Tumbi-Berkeley Vale district will receive a Christmas box next week. Orchardists and farmers will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Farmers In Mew Zealand
WELLINGTON (N.Z.): A delegation representing farmers' unions of England, Scotland. Wales and Northern Ireland arrived on Auckland today to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Clothing, But Holds Record Stocks OF Wool
LONDON, Thursday.—Britain lacks new clothes and is becoming threadbare while owning the largest store of wool ever known. Wool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Germans to Farm for Britain
LONDON, Dec. 14. A.A.P.—Thousands of German prisoners are to work on farms in Britain says the "Daily Express," They are taking…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmer Fined for Starting Bushfire
SYDNEY, Thursday. — William Robert Freeburn, farmer, of Mulgoa, was fined £5 at Penrith Court for having started a fire which caused…
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