To Clear Spilt Wheat Off Roads
Greater Newcastle Health Committee will ask the City Engineer (Mr. Baddeley) to arrange for a cleaning and gutter squad to clean…
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Farming & the land, 1948
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Boards Fix Fuel Sources For Wheat Lorries
About 200 motor lorries which carry wheat to Newcastle can obtain petrol at only two garages nominated by the Wheat Board and…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday. —When the Commonwealth's wartime power to market wheat become inoperative in a few months,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Higher Price For N.Z. Butter
WELLINGTON, July 15. A.A.P.—Reutere.—Britan will pay New Zealand 233/ a cwt for butter for the 1948-49 season, compared with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Resume Wool Sales In September
Wool sales will resume in Newcastle on September 28-30. Sales will also be held on October 19-21, November 23-25, and December…
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The City of St. Albans sailed from Newcastle yesterday 7600 bales short of her wool cargo because the inter-union dispute over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ship Left Without Cargo Of Wool
The vessel City of St. Albans, which has been held up in Newcastle by a demarcation dispute between the Transport Workers'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Keep Flour Mills Working With Wheat By Road
SYDNEY, Friday.— As fair as transport was concerned there was no need for flour mills to close because of lack of wheat, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Transport Needed To Lift Grain And Wool
The shortage of coal for railway haulage may necessitate the use of road transport for some months. More than 200 motor-trucks are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat From Plane, 4 Acres A Minute
TAMWORTH, Sunday. —A specially equipped plane, flying at 40ft., sowed wheat at the rate of` four acres a minute at Tamworth…
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SYDNEY, Monday—During the first half of the 1948-49 wool-selling season, about 418,000 bales will be offered at Sydney auctions…
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SYDNEY.—Fleets of lorries are daily transporting 1100 tons of last season's record wheat crop from northern N.S.W. to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Record Wheat Crop Handled By Silos
SYDNEY: An all-time record of 50 million bushels of wheat had been put through the N.S.Wy. silo system, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) said in the Legislative Assembly today…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Fleets of trucks were shifting about 1100 tons of wheat a day by road to Newcastle for oversea shipment, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmer Fined For Pamphlet On By-election
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Timothy William McCristal, farmer, of Stoney Creek, near Taree, was to-day fined a total of £30, with £22…
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LONDON, July 22. A.A.P.—The King and Queen attended the wedding of the Earl of Derby to Lady Isabel Mills-Lade at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shrike Strike Caterpillars, Help Farmers
The birds which had protected Morpeth cauliflower crops against white butterflies and grubs could be black-faced cuckoo shrike, said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Cuts "To Stay For Five Years"
SYDNEY, Sunday.— According to experts in the dairying industry, there is little chance of butter rationing in Australia being lifted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three in Prison Farm Break
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Three young prisoners escaped from Emu Plains Prison Farm to-day. Prison authorities say none of them is dangerous…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Farm
SOME times I go for a holiday to the farm and I see lots of different animals. I watch the men milk the cows with the machines…
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