Truck-load of Butter Stolen
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Loaded with 61 cases of butter, a motor truck was stolen from the Metropolitan Fresh Food and Ice Co.'s garage…
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Farming & the land, 1945
411 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 21
Big Sheep Losses Feared in Strike
NARRABRI, Wednesday—Sheep losses from fly attacks will exceed that of the drought if the shearing strike is not settled very soon, said…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday—Butter valued at £300 was found by dectectives near the Victoria Market. It represents all but four cases…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—To meet the full needs of New South Wales, between 12 million and 13 million bushels of wheat are required…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood Swamps Goods Train Two Lost; Cattle Save Five Men
BRISBANE, Thursday.—Trapped in a flood when a goods train broke down on a bridge across the Burdekin River, two people are missing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gosford Farmers Plan for Water Supply
GOSFORD, Friday.—More than 100 members of the Gosford District Vegetable Growers' Association discussed means of obtaining an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm Plant From War Gear
A farmer in a northern battle area, unable to get a cultivator, made himself one from materials on the spot. Now it has been adopted by the Army Inventions Directorate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral Industry Strike Threat
BRISBANE, Monday.—Strike action by the Queensland branch of the Australian Workers' Union might follow if the Federal Arbitration…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three for Trial on Butter Theft Charge
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—John Walter Blaxland, 32, shop assistant; John Napier, 30, truck driver, and Elate Blaxland, 31, shop proprietress, were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Farmers Are Impressed
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Delegates of the United Kingdom Farmers' Union, who recently completed a tour of Australia were impressed with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Seaboots for Sailors
In five years hundreds of pans of seaboot stockings, made from wool spun in Newcastle by the Victoria League Spinning Depot at Scott's,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"25 Farmers Back Bank Control"
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—During the debate on the Address in Reply, Mr. Mountjoy (Lab., W.A.) produced a letter from 25 farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Wool Appraisements
The New England, North and North-west Producers' Co. Ltd., reports that the catalogue for appraisement No. 95 at Newcastle, consisted of 2722 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Move to Boost Wool Trade
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Manufacturers of synthetic fibres overseas were spending enormous sums on research and publicity and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →General Slim "Farmer, Brewer"
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—When the Japanese captured 1,500,000 cabbages in gardens in Burma the British troops had to recapture them…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Coolie Conditions" in Dairying
SYDNEY, Thursday.—"We challenge the Prices Commissioner (Mr. Copland), who has just returned from abroad, to compare the prices and…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) in the Legislative Assembly, speaking on taxation imposed on vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Strike Threat By Queensland Dairymen
BRISBANE: Because they are tired of "praying, begging and crawling to obtain a fair return for their labor," central Queensland dairymen are threatening to stride. "It's just wild talk," sand an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Workers Vote for Resumption
BRISBANE, Friday—Queensland pastoral workers, in a State-wide secret ballot, ordered by the Industrial Court, voted by a two to one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mystery of 3681 Missing Cattle
CANBERRA, Friday.—Forty per cent. of the mob which made the great cattle trek across Northern Australia were missing, Mr. Cameron…
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