Our Interest In Wool
IN our workaday preoccupation with secondary industry we are apt to forget that wool is still, in the national scheme of things, our…
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Farming & the land, 1946
657 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 33
Biggest Wool Shipments in Six Years
Oversea ships in Newcastle yesterday were booked to load 48,000 bales of wool. Another vessel due at the week-end will load 5000 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Refund Refused After 121 Cattle Impounded
Greater Newcastle Health Committee unanimously refused last night an application from P. F. Mahony, of Hamilton, for the refund of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Move to Involve North in Meat Strike Fails Send Butter, Cheese And Bacon To Sydney
A move to involve all butter, cheese and bacon factories in the Northern District in the Sydney meat strike was defeated last night. The Committee of Management of the Newcastle and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grasshopper, Mice Plagues Upper Hunter Farms Affected
A plague of mice on farms in the Upper Hunter and swarms of grasshoppers at Gresford and Dungog were becoming troublesome, said the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eagle Farm Track
Lay-out of Eagle Farm racecourse, where the Stradbroke Handicap will be run on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Cattle, Sheep Firm At Waratah
A moderate supply of cattle was forward yesterday at Greater Newcastle Abattoir saleyards, Waratah. Consignments included a good showing of prime…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool Suit Has Two Jackets
Frances Rafferty, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer actress, wears a striking two-tone wool suit which features two jackets, Skirt…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sailing To-day With Big Wool Cargo
After loading at Newcastle for three weeks, the motorship' Meadowbank will leave Newcastle to-day with 12,010 bales of wool and 1000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Storm Damages Crops in India "Herald" Service
CALCUTTA, May 2.—Damage, which it is feared may be considerable, was done to crops by flood rains resulting from violent electric…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australian Wool Has Ready Sale in America
MELBOURNE.—For the first nine months of the present financial year. 924,625 bales of wool, worth £18,251,000, out of total exports of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stop Press Eagle Farm Draw for Stradbroke
Draw for the Stradbroke Handicap: Melhero 12, Repshot 13, Abbeville 16, Reperio 15, Nestor 14, Mar Leesh 5, Victory Lad 20, High Rank…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wharfmen's Stand On Double-dumped Wool
SYDNEY: From today, waterside workers at all wool ports would refuse to handle "double-dump" bales until a date was fixed for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Involved In Wool Dispute
The Waterside Workers' Federation's ban upon loading of wool double-dumps caused the hold-up of work today on the Alleghany Victory, which is at the Newcastle Silo Wharf loading a cargo for the United States…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ships Tied Up Over Double-Bale Wool
Waterside workers yesterday refused to handle double-bale wool in Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Launceston and Geelong. In Sydney last night, the Federal Secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deadlock in Waterfront Wool Dispute General Tie-up Threat Increases
A deadlock in the double-dumping wool dispute threatens to tie up all shipping in Australian ports. The port of Newcastle is likely to be idle by to-morrow if the dispute is not settled to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cream of Cotton Crop
A multiple-duty basic dress of black cotton and wool jersey lands itself to many changes of accessories and helps balance the wardrode budget. It is shown worn with the peplum jerkin of white, rose-printed glazed chintz with belt of red grosgrain…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Victory Lad Speedy At Eagle Farm In Half Mile Test
BRISBANE.—Victory Lad today galloped half a mile in 50, the last three in 38, at Eagle Farm today, and went to the post strongly. He was sent out with Port Raider, stayed with him until…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Dispute Stops Big Wool Loading
The Samwinged, which was to have loaded 22,000 bales of wool at Newcastle, moved from the Steel Works Wharf to the free…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sidelights on Double-dump Wool Dispute
MANY SHIPS ARE HELD UP in Australian ports owing to the refusal of waterside workers to handle double-pressed wool bales. Sidelights at Newcastle wool sheds today—(Bottom left) Trucking single-pressed bale. Picture shows two singles pressed into a double, and a single bale before…
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