U.K.-Soviet Pact Aid Wool Trade "Herald" London Service
By facilitating Russian importation of wool, the new Anglo-Russian trade agreement indirectly assists Australia. Russia is expected…
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Farming & the land, 1948
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 30
"Confusion" Over Wheat Delivery
TAMWORTH, Sunday.—Farmers claim that lack of cooperation between headquarters of the grain elevators in Sydney and local silo…
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Unfavourable weather and the holiday period caused the loss of seven wheat loading days on the Newcastle waterfront…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rain Lowers Wheat Protein Content
SYDNEY, Monday.—The quality of white bread in this State was likely to be reduced because of rain damage to wheat crops, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →155,000 Bales of Wool For Auction
MELBOURNE, Monday.—About 155,000 bales of wool from joint association's stocks would be offered for sale at normal auctions…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Greasy wool exporrts from Australia in the five months ended November 30 last dropped to 747,888 bales (worth…
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Because of the effect the tally clerks' dispute had on the handling of wool in Sydney, the Newcastle sales set down for January 28 and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Western Crops "Not Worth Harvesting"
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A number of farmers in the Western districts consider it would be a waste of time to strip wheat crops left…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accused Of Trying To Poison Father To Get His Farm
MELBOURNE: That Ronald Sibbald Muir, 18, had admitted having attempted to poison his father, John Sibbald Muir, engineer of Wantirnard., Ringwood so he would get his father's farm, was alleged in the Box Hill Court today…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.— The feature of the Geelong wool sales to-day was that the 10 lots realised 100d or more a pound. It was the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hunter Record Dairy Season
This season a record amount of milk has been received by the Hunter Valley Cooperative Dairy Society Co. Ltd. Mr. R. Gibson…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Queer Points From Cattle World
A freak heifer which increased nearly 1000 per cent in value in two months, a calf without a landing permit, and two bulls on a rampage were in the news yesterday. SINGLETON, Friday.—A freak…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →10M. Sheep Killed in 8 Months
MELBOURNE, Friday.—A iota of 10,164,000 sheep and lambs was slaughtered in Australia for the eight months ended last August,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.s.w. Provides Wheat Problem
MELBOURNE: N.S.W. was Australia's big wheat worry, the general manager of Australian Wheat Board (Mr. C. J…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Explosives Seized On U.S. Farm
NEW YORK, Jan. 9. A.A.P.—A shipment of 85,000lb. of explosives was seized late yesterday on farm in New Jersey by State…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—With the recapture by police to-day of Stanley Neil, 21, in the bush at Ampitheatre, near Avoca, Kenneth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers "Lost £100M. By Labour Policy"
SYDNEY, Friday.—A conservative estimate showed that primary industries had lost at least £100 million because of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bagged Wheat, Crops Lost In Fire
ADELAIDE, Sunday. - Nearly 1000 men fought a bushfire for six hours yesterday over an eight mile front near Burra, 75 miles north of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →184,000 Bales of Wool in Series
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The 1948 wool auctions which will begin in Sydney to-morrow will be held in three series, in which 184,000 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Cargo Ready
The fifth shipment of new season wheat from Newcastle is expected to leave to-morrow in the Ocean Vista. She will sail for…
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