Wool Store Fire Threatens Homes
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A fire which caused £75,000 damage at a wool store at Botany early this morning endangered 50 homes. In a fire in…
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Farming & the land, 1947
864 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 44
Wool Brings To 54½d 1b In Newcastle
The highest price paid for wool at Newcastle sales yesterday was 54½d a lb for mine bales of AAA com w from Glen Nevis, Singleton…
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Hunter Valley farmers are disturbed at the acute shortage of rural labour, and refer bitterly to the "glare of lights," the shorter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Junior Farmers To Hold Show
Wallsend Junior Farmers' Club decided last night to hold a memorial appeal show on November 8. Other district clubs will be invited…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russia Beat British Offer For Butter
LONDON, Sept. 26. A.A.P.—In negotiations for a trade agreement with Denmark, Russia offered 2/11½ a lb for Danish butter in exchange…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Season May Retard Log Shipments
SYDNEY, Friday.—With the approach of the wheat and wool season, trucking of logs from the North Coast would again become a problem,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →African Rinderpest Virus For China: Beat Cattle Disease
SHANGHAI, Saturday: In a quest for precious rinderpest seed virus, essential to effective scientific control of the Orient's deadliest cattle disease, Australian Dr. Keith L. V. Kesteven, U.N.R.R.A. veterinary adviser, is on the way by plane to Nairobi…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tasmanian Farmers' Strike Move Over Bank Plan
LADNCESTON.—A strike of all farmers in Tasmania in protest against nationalisation of banking, was agreed to…
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The first shipment of new-season wool from Newcastle will leave for New York and Boston on Thursday in the Spitfire (8277 tons)…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Values generally were unchanged from the previous week's levels and good clearances were effected at Sydney wool…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm Holidays
ONE SCHOOL holiday I went to Tamworth, my uncle and aunt being at the station to meet me. When we arrived at the farm, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Radio-Active Fertilisers Give Big Crops "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Big crops, reported to have grown in the atom-bombed areas of Nagasaki and Japan, have been matched on an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ancient British Cattle Sale
This cattle sale in Barnet (England) has been going on for 700 years, and is still a centre of attraction, and a pleasure fair. The horses in the foreground are wild Welsh Cobs. They are being viewed by buyers. Entries for horses at this sale were large, in view of petrol restrictions…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →1265 Tons Of Butter Made In August
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Production of factory butter in New South Wales during August was 1265 tons. This was a decline of 76 tons on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Chiefs See No Handicap In Synthetics
NEW YORK, September 30. A.A.P.—The development of synthetic fibres may help rather than handicap the sale of wool, in the opinion of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australian Wheat May Go to U.k
LONDON, October 1. A.A.P.—Britain may buy up to 1,800,000 tons of Australia's available wheat exports in 1948, says the Finance correspondent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers Oppose Lower Subsidy On Milk
FARMERS would not tolerate any decrease in the price of raw milk by way of reduced subsidy. They had not been compensated for rising costs,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Future Of the Wool Industry
THE welfare of the wool industry has a special interest to Newcastle, which has become an important selling…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmer Caught Stealing Sheep
LONDON, Saturday.—A Yorkshire Dales farmer caught stealing sheep was ordered by the victims to sell up and clear out. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Trucked to Newcastle
Large consignments of wool are arriving in Newcastle for the wool sales. This picture was taken at Honeysuckle Goodsyard where several truckloads of wool from scone and Coonabarabran were yesterday loaded on board a motor-truck for transport to the wont stores. The first new…
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