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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1947

864 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 44

Butter-making Subsidiary to Milk Handling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 2

The butter making plant at Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory, Ltd., was now subsidiary to milk handling, said the Chairman of…

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13,000 Bales for Wool Sale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 2

The eighth wool sale will be held at Newcastle on March 20. About 13,000 bales will be offered on the same day by six brokers…

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Junior Farmers' Show At RAymond Terrace

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 11

The Junior Farmers' Show which opened today at Raymond Terrace is unique in that it is the only annual exhibition in the State to be conducted by youngsters. A showground was laid down years…

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Summer Goes Out On A Skein Of Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1947 · page 8

INFALLIBLE, if unorthodox, signs that Summer can now be considered officially on its way out, have appeared…

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Junior Farmers' Show at Raymond Terrace

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1947 · page 4

Raymond Terrace Junior Farmers' Club opened its 11th annual show at the Sports Ground yesterday. Inter-district competition was keen…

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Starving Birds Kill Sheep In Britain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, March 9. A.A.P.—Reduced to starvation by the snowbound conditions in the Yorkshire wolds, birds are attacking…

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Advisory Officer To Wool Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 March 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday.—The appointment was announced to-day of Mr. A. C. McKay. Assistant Director of Veterinary Hygiene, as Advisory…

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Wool Prices Up at Brisbane Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 8

BRISBANE, Monday.—At the sixth wool sales to-day, the market, compared with rates ruling in Sydney last week, was par to 5 per…

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Women's Body Found On Blazing Haystack: Farmers Hunt For Negro

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday. Hundreds of farmers are searching North Carolina for the murderer of Mrs. Frank Roberts, 38, a farmer's wife of Lumberton. The woman's body was found last…

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Australian Wool Policy Questioned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 6

TOKYO, March 11. A.A.P.—Unless the Japanese can manufacture lowest-grade Australian wool into materials which can be exported, to…

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Greasy Wool to 46½d in Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 7

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—The value of greasy wool was fully equal to yesterday' opening rates at the wool sales to-day. Scoureds were of…

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Butter Production

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1947 · page 2

CALNBERRA, Wednesday.—Butter production throughout Australia in the three months ended January 31 last dropped by 4200 tons to 84,528…

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Brisbane Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1947 · page 9

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Nearly all the 11,687 bales offered at the wool sales to-day were cleared. Selection generally showed improvement…

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To Examine Dairy Industry Position

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1947 · page 6

CANBERRA, Wednesday. — The dissatisfaction existing in the dairy industry over the price of milk will be examined by the Minister for…

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Britain's Heart Begins To Beat As Thermometer Climbs Steadily Gordon Gilmour's London Dairy

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 13 March 1947 · page 8

LONDON, Wednesday: The thermometer, as I write, is rising steadily, and the heart of the country has started to beat again. In the fields, tufts of grass are…

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Scoured Wool to 75D in Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 5

BRISBANE, Thursday.— The Australasian record price of 75d a lb for scoured wool was obtained at the wool sales which closed to-day. The…

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Two Dead in Shooting On Lonely Farm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 4

WINGHAM, Thursday. — A timber hauler was fatally shot and an other man in believed to have taken his own life after a domestic quarrel…

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Single Farms for Ex-Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The bill to introduce a modified "single farm" system of soldier, settlement was read a second time in the Legislative…

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Two Escape from Prison Farm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 3

BATRURST, Thursday.—Two men escaped to-night from Oberon prison farm. They were—Robert Henry Chrystal, 39,…

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Export Wheat Rise

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1947 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday.—An increase of 1/6 a bushel to 15/11¼ in the price of wheat for export was announced to-day by the Australian Wheat…

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