New Film Company To Make Picture About Wheat Man
MELBOURNE.—To produce regular feature films in Australia a Victorian company to be known as the Arthur Collins Film…
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Farming & the land, 1947
864 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 44
No Labour, Will Sell Dairy Herd
SINGLETON, Sunday.—Owing to labour shortage, Mr. George Moore, dairy farmer, of Maison Dieu, has sold his Ayrshire dairy herd, involving a…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police are searching for Robert Wilson, 16½, who escaped from Emu Plains prison farm, Penrith, about 7.30 p.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →W.a. Wool Record
PERTH, Monday.—A State record of 62½d for two bales from Mae Nichols, of Sherwood Station. Meekathara, was obtained at the wool sales which opened…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Bags Arrive From India
SYDNEY, Monday-Several thousand tons of wheat bags have arrived from India. A ship arrived to-day carrying 6000 tons of jute products, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pole Didn't Want To Be "Shot Like Sheep"
LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.): Former Polish Vice-Premier Mikolajczyk, who escaped to England yesterday, said: "I didn't want to be shot and killed like a sheep." He was flown from Germany in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Rain Flattens Big Wheat Areas at Moree
MOREE Rain pelted down again last night and gave the bumper wheat harvest in this district it's greatest setback, almost destroying hundreds of acres of crops and damaging many others. "Farmers are praying harder for a month of tine weather now than…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strong Winds Offset Good Rain On Farms
The strong westerly wind, was undoing all the good the rain might have done, the Maitland District stock Inspector (Mr. E. A. Lucas)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Values Harden
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Under strong competition, values hardened for some lines at the wool sales to-day, when 13,100 bales were offered…
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The Fort Chambly (7130 tons) this week will load the first full wool cargo at Newcastle this season. She will load between 18,000 and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain May Pay More For Dairy Produce "Herald" Service
LONDON, Nov. 4.—Australian suppliers of meat and dairy products to Britain will probably he paid more for their products under new agreements…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers Happy As Winds Move East
SYDNEY.—To the great satisfaction of wheat growers the cyclonic depression which caused yesterday's gales over the southern…
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WARIALDA, Wednesday.—Wheat-growers will hold a general meeting to-morrow in an effort to have the Wheat Board recognise their urgent…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Australian Butter 26/- lb. In China
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Large quantities of Australian butter had been canned in Shanghai and sold at 150,000 Chinese dollars (26/ Australian) a lb.,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Record Oat Crop Of 18M. Bushels
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—It was estimated that the oat grain harvest for New South Wales would be a record of 18 million bushels, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool, Rubber Fire in London
Huge smoke clouds covered large parts of east London, where a four-acre dump holding many tons of rubber and about 40,000 tons of New Zealand wool caught fire at Limmer Wharf, Barking, on the east side. Three hundred firemen, many of them working in a river of molten rubber,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Upper Hunter Wheat Crops "Best Ever"
"Wheat crops in the Upper Hunter have matured magnificently" and should average 30 bushels to the acre throughout the district,"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Butter "Not Available"
HONGKONG, Nov. 7.—"There is not one pound of Australian butter available in Nanking and it is highly doubtful if it is possible to find one…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lack of Bags May Mean Loss of Half Wheat Crop
COONABARABRAN, Sat. (O.S.R.): Shortage of wheat bags is worrying growers, who fear it may result in a loss of half their crop. Claiming this today, Mr. H. B…
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TAMWORTH, Friday.—The District Superintendent of Railways at Werris Creek (Mr. R. C. Sparke) said 800 bulk trucks were standing by in the…
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