Sydney Wool Strike Ends; Sales To Resume
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A strike by more than 300 storemen and packers in wool-selling brokers' stores, which has held up Sydney…
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Farming & the land, 1948
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Crops Destroyed By Black Insects
Black insects which recently invaded Newcastle were playing havoc with vegetable crops, the District Agronomist (Mr. G. T. Dawson)…
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Loading of export wheat on the Reynolds has been delayed by slow delivery from country sidings to Newcastle silos…
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WELLINGTON, Oct. 25. A.A.P.—Reuter.—At nightfall there was still no trace of the National Airways airliner that has been missing…
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TOKIO, Wed. (O.S.R.): An American firm has been granted a monopoly in buying and handling all imports of Australian wool by Japan this season…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →German Farmers Learn New Methods of Agriculture
BERLIN, Wed. (O.S.R.): New, progressive farming methods developed by German research are being taken out of laboratory files and made available to farmers…
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Shortage of rail trucks is seriously affecting the export of wheat from Newcastle. The slowness with which the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plan On Wheat Socialisation, Says Minister
CANBERRA, Friday.—The Wheat Stabilisation Bill for which growers had voted approval was a form of socialisation, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.Z. Wool Store Burnt Out
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Oct. 31. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The three-storied threequarter acre steel framed brick wool store of Levin and Company at…
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TOKIO, Tues. (O.S.R.): Alarmed by the suspicious reaction to his appointment, the new American Coordinator of Wool Procurement for Japan, Mr. J. Malone, will fly to Australia to explain his company's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cane And Dairy Land Lost In Sand Dunes
LISMORE, Monday.—Sand dunes, some of them 30ft. high, had covered hundreds of the acres of rich cane and dairying land…
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With the 1947-48 season now concluded, the Newcastle Silos have handled an all time record amount of wheat—10,000,000 bushels—since the harvest began last November…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →28,500 Bales For Next Wool Sale
More than 28,500 bales will be submitted at next Newcastle wool sales, from November 23 to 25. The offering will include fine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Upper Hunter Wheat Harvesting Begins
Harvesting of wheat in the Upper Hunter Valley had commenced, the District Agronomist (Mr. G. T. Dawson) said yesterday…
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LEETON, Friday.—The disease known as black heart has attacked apricot and peach trees in the Murrumbidgee irrigation Area for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£600 Tomato Crop Offered Trades Hall
Newcastle trade union officials who had visited Gosford yesterday in connection with the Trades Hall Council's produce market had been offered by one grower the whole of his tomato crop for approximately…
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CANBERRA, Monday. — The wheat crop this season is expected to yield slightly less than 200 million bushels. This, although not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Brief Good Wheat Crop Is Expected
An Australian wheat crop of 180,000,000 bushels and possibly more is expected this season. Though considerably below last year's harvest of 220,000,000 bushels, this figure is regarded as an extremely good one. Latest estimate of the N.S.W. crop is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Vessel Loading Wool Cargo
The P. and O. vessel Paringa, at present in Newcastle, will load 7000 bales of wool for the Continent and United…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat Used To Smother Fire
NARRABRI, Monday.—Firemen slit bags of wheat in an endeavour to smother a fire in a wheat stack at Edgeroi, 17…
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