Claims Wheat Crop Can Be Handled
MELBOURNE, Thursday.— Sufficient bags, railway trucks and silo space to handle the record wheat crop in New South Wales should be…
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Farming & the land, 1947
864 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 32 of 44
Australia's Bumper Wheat Crops Will Fill The Silos
VARIED CAREER.—Slim brunette, Connie Jordan, of Bowen Hills (Queensland), at work on a plane at Archerfield airport. A former ballet teacher, Miss Jordan is a test engineer with Qantas and is the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Workers Ban Overtime
MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Members of the Wool and Basil Workers' Union to-day decided to place a ban on all overtime. The decision arises…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Emergency Gangs Recruited to Harvest N.s.w. Wheat
SYDNEY.—Emergency gangs of shop assistants and others in country towns are being organised by employment officers to help harvest the State's greatest wheat crop, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) said today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£250,000 A Year Federal Aid For Dairying
CANBERRA, Thursday. — The Federal Government has approved an annual grant not exceeding £250,000 for five years to promote…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Sides Of Butter Prices
AT any time now the harassed housewife may expect accentuation of her budget difficulties by an increase in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Release Sacks To Bag Extra 18M. Bushels Wheat
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—An increase in the allocation of corn sacks, sufficient to bag another 18,000,000 bushels of wheat in New South Wales,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Excavations For Farms, Drains In Lower Hunter
The following work for the year was reported to the annual meeting of shareholders of the Lower Hunter Rural Cooperative Society, held at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →High Harvest Pay Illegal, Says Farmers' Official
SYDNEY.—It is illegal for persons to claim or pay rates in excess of those fixed by the Court. This warning to wheatgrowers and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rain, 'Hoppers Threaten Wheat
MELBOURNE: Fear that this year's Victorian wheat crop, which at present is expected to be a record, might be injured by more rain was expressed by Weather Bureau officials yesterday. Rain averaging half to three-quarters of an inch fell in the wheat belt…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Figures Rise For 1947-48 Clip
In September, wool sold in Australia realised £14,781,634 compared with £6,686,333 for the same month of 1946, said the National Council of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →2 Million More Bags For N.S.W. Wheat
MELBOURNE, Monday.—The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) to-day obtained 6000 more bales of cornsacks from the Australian Wheat…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—The body of Walter Duffield, 49, farmer, of Red Hill, was found in a paddock on his property this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Market Firm
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Under strong competition, mainly from Yorkshire, the Continent, and Australian mills, and with limited support from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Silos Key In Wheat
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Newcastle and Sydney silos were the key to harvesting the record wheat crop, the Chief of the Division of Plant Industry (Mr. W. Poggendorff) said to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Urges Policy To Increase Dairy Product Exports
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Sir Earle Page (C.P., N.S.W.), in the House of Representatives to-day, moved the adjournment of the House of discuss the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Theft Of Butter Brings Fines
Three members of the crew of the Port Adelaide were each fined £15 by Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., at Newcastle Court yesterday on charges…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australian Wheat For France
PARIS, Oct. 22. A.A.P.—The French News Agency states that the Australian Government has concluded an agreement with France to deliver…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Immediate Price Rise for Butter
BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The Commonwealth Controller of Dairy Products (Mr. Sheehy) told the annual conference of Queensland Cooperative…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Season's Top Wool Price 87½d
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—There was strong competition throughout the wool auctions in Sydney to-day from Yorkshire, the Continent and Australian…
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