Cattle, Sheep Stream to Market
A continuous stream of sheep and cattle has been passing out of the Moonan and Tomalla districts to Scone stock saleyards in recent weeks…
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Farming & the land, 1947
864 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 44
Wool Clerks To Plan Stoppage
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Federal Executive of the Clerks' Union will meet in Newcastle to-morrow, to fix dates on which stopwork meetings…
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MOOLMAN (Transvaal), March 25. A.A.P.—When the Royal train stopped for water yesterday at the small station of Commondale, the King…
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A proposal to hold stopwork meetings of woolselling brokers' clerks will be considered by the Federal Executive of the Clerks' Union in…
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Newcastle wool sale dates have been amended because flood conditions in Queensland made it necessary to alter selling dates for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bringing Wheat To Newcastle
The biggest shipment of wheat to arrive at Newcastle is expected in the motorship Momba on Monday. She will deliver 5000 tons to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clerks To Ban Wool Export
Handling of wool for export from Australian ports will be banned by the Federal Executive of the Clerks' Union on a date to be fixed. This decision was made in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →High Rates Continue At Wool Sales
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Prices Were generally high and bidding brisk at Sydney wool sales to-day, when a catalogue of 10,987 bales was offered…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Remanded On Wool Theft Charge
Two men, charged with the theft of a quantity of wool, the property of the Australian Wool Realisation Commission, were remanded until…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hunter District Vegetable Crops Hit By Pests
Several pests were seriously damaging [?]in the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Direct Action Move By Farmers Fails
SYDNEY, Thursday. — Strikes as a means of obtaining a payable price for butter were condemned at to-day's meeting of the executive of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Argentina Not In Wheat Pact
LONDON, Friday: Argentina had refused to be a party at present to the proposed interuational agreement to stabilise prices and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dollars For Wool Sent To Japan
CANBERRA, Friday.—The Commonwealth Government has concluded a wool agreement with Japan The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →British Farmers Lose £20 Million
LONDON, March 30. A.A.P. — A situation unparalleled in the history of British agriculture has developed from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stalin Offers Wheat To Britain
MOSCOW, March 31.—Mr. Stalin offered to supply wheat to Britain, and may also send timber…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Junior Farmer Finalist
Bernie Wakeling, 20, of Bega (left), Bernie Carter, A.B.C. compere of rural broadcast sessions (Left of microphone), and Les Scott, 20, of Lake Wyangan, congratulate Pierce Campbell, 18, of Crookwell, when he was selected as the New South Wales finalist in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Wheat Cargo Arrives
The motorship Momba is discharging at the Sulphide Wharf the largest cargo of wheat to arrive at Newcastle. The wheat was shipped from Geelong and is intended for northern district towns Waterside workers are shown placing the wheat on flat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gas Blitz To Kill Mice In Mallee Wheat
MELBOURNE.—The Australian Wheat Board is rushing today special gangs of men with fumigators from South Australia,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Champion Junior Farmer is South Australian
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A month's tour of New Zealand, with all expenses paid by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, was the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hekla Volcano Threatens Many Farms
REYKJAVIK, April 1. A.A.P. —The Mt. Hekla volcano in southern Iceland erupted with new force yesterday…
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