Queensland Pastoral Workers Vote For 40-Hour Week
BRISBANE, Thursday.âMeetings of pastoral workers in all the main centres of Queensland on February 3 had decided that a 40-hour week…
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Farming & the land, 1946
657 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 33
350,000 Bales of Wool Await Shipment
Since July, 64,500 bales of wool have been shipped from Newcastle. Approximately 350,000 bales remain in Wool stores awaiting export…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.T. Cattle Areas for Selection
DARWIN, Friday.—The Administrator of the Northern Territory (Mr. Abbott) announced that, after June, 5000 square miles of cattle country…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Use State Farms to Help British Food Drive
SYDNEY, Friday.—As wide a use as possible will be made of the State farm mechanisation scheme to assist the Commonwealth in its all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Soldiers on State Farms
Experimental farms in New South Wales will be used for training returned soldiers who desire to take up land, says a report in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Change Wheat for Japanese Silk
NEW YORK, Feb. 19. A.A.P.—Australia is negotiating for the exchange of wheat for Japanese silk. Australia has already asked Japan…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers Against Rate Increase
Mulbring ratepayers have protested to Kearsley Shire Council against the decision to Increase its general rate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Packing Butter at Raymond Terrace
The final stage in the production of butter at the Raymond Terrace factory. It is claimed that the Hunter Valley could double production within 12 months. Story, Page 2…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Show Secretary "Crank On Farming"
MR. PERCY LEGOE, Newcastle Show Secretary, is usually a very quiet sort of chap, but when there is a move afoot to improve…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairymen Stay Hand on Strike
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Milk producers decided to-day to postpone a decision about with-holding supplies from Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep, Lambs Firm
SYDNEY, Monday.—Lighter supplies of sheep and lambs were penned at Flemington saleyards to-day, only 18,945 head being available. Competition…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Synthetics Will Not Oust Wool Says Expert From Canada
"Wool will never be displaced by synthetics," a Canadian textile expert told the Newcastle Business Men's club today. He added that Canada was starved for woollen clothes and that the world generally offered a great opportunity at present for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool Beats Synthetic, Says Expert
Synthetic fibre would never replace wool, because wool had certain characteristics which no synthetic fibre had, Mr. Stanley H. Pettitt former…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Show's Big Day Lavish Displays & Quality Cattle
Among the thousands of visitors to Maitland's first postwar Show, officially opened today, were hundreds from Newcastle, as well as from more distant parts of the State. THEY included sightseeing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Penicillin Cured Cattle Ailments
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The use of penicillin to cure certain dairy cattle ailments was revealed in the Legislative Assembly by the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Load Wool, Steel for U.k
The Empire Paragon (9892 tons), which was built as a wartime vessel by the Ministry of War Transport, will prove ideal for oversea trade. She has electric welded plates on the hull, and large cargo space. Besides ordinary lifting gear, she has special heavy lifting gear. The vessel is to load 2000 tons of steel and 4000 bales of wool for the United Kingdom…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attack on Farm Water Supplies Bill
SYDNEY, Thursday.—An attack on the Farm Water Supplies Bill was made by Mr. Bate (Lib., Wollondilly) during the second reading…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →May Send Canned Butter to U.K.
CANBERRA, Friday.—Australian and American authorities are examining the possibility of releasing to Britain huge quantities…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →D.d.t. Protects Local Crops
Growers of cabbage and cauliflower in the Hunter Valley were using D.D.T. dust very successfully in the control of cabbage moth and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nine Finalists Left in Progressive Farmer Competition
SYDNEY, Friday.—The adjudicators in the Progressive Farmer competition have now reduced the number of finalists to nine, who will be…
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