Wool Dinner Dress
A black wool dinner dress with tan silk draperies is worn by this model at a West End fashion show, presented by Digby and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1946
657 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 33
Planes Used to Muster Cattle
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.âPlanes are being used to assist in mustering cattle in the South Island hill country. In one block…
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THE second Newcastle wool sales were abandoned yesterday. Buyers decided again not to…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—An Australian record for Merino wool was established for four bales of super merino branded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Buyers Debate Brisbane Sale Attendance
SYDNEY: Wool buyers are meeting: today to decide whether, they will attend the Brisbane wool sales next week…
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SYDNEY.—Land holders in country areas of N.S.W. appear to be winning the fight against grasshoppers…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →S.A. Wheat Hit by Drought
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Recent dry weather over Southern Australia reduced the 1946-47 wheat harvest by 20,000,000 bushels. If rain had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Buyers Go to Brisbane, But Wool Sales Unlikely
WOOLBUYERS left for Brisbane yesterday, but may not operate there for next week's sales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Loading Wool at Brisbane
Wool was still being in Brisbane this week. The Javanese Prince is seen taking part of 28,000 bales for shipment to Antwerp; The President of Queensland branch of the Federated Clerks Union (Mr. S. H. Martin) said on Thursday that the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Refrigeration for Farms
BRISBANE, Friday.—A scheme to put refrigerators on farms at cheap rental rates was adopted at the annual conference of the Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Doctor Denies Allegation Of Baby Farming "Herald" Service
CHICAGO, Oct. 20.—A strange case in which a wealthy physician and his wife were arrested, after five young children, filthy and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Farmer Takes A Wife—Four Of Them
NEW YORK, Sunday.—Justus Leroy Barker, 36, New Jersey farm hand, has confessed to the police that he has four, living wives, five children and no divorces. He had been living In different…
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THIS is how pedestrians should cross the street.—In view of the publicity given to the proposed police campaign against jay-walking, Newcastle people were more careful yesterday, but not many kept between the lines like the shoppers in the picture above—taken at Perkin Street…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →High Wool Prices in Brisbane
BRISBANE, Monday.—Under strong competition from the Continent, America and Bradford, prices at the wool sales to-day were 5 per…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →May Have to Aid Farmers
City dwellers would have to be prepared to assist farmers financially in dealing with problems, Mr. A. W. S. Moodie, of the Department…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Premier Inspects Yearlings at Stud Farm
The Premier (Mr. McKell) is seen at Kia Ora Stud with the manager (Mr. Bert Riddle) and some of the yearlings. Mr. McKell visited the stud farm during his visite to Glenbawn to open work on the new dam…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Guns or Butter?
The best news that has come out of Russia since the armistice may be the report that in the new budget, the armaments vote…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Record Queensland Price for Wool
BRISBANE, Tuesday. — Greasy wool fetched a Queensland record price of 49¾d at the wool sales. Values of all descriptions ruled very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Subsidy or Less Milk, Say Dairymen
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A deputation from the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council to-day asked that the State Government secure without delay on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmlands Near Singleton
Construction of the Glennies Creek dam near Falbrook and extension of the proposed electricity line from Singleton would treble primary production, says Mr. W. Manwarring, of "Mount Olive," 12 miles from Singleton, seen ploughing his farm. Last year he had to rely on a petrol pump. It failed to deliver all the water required for…
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