No Butter Increase For Pensioners
The Government had decided not to increase the butter ration at present, said the Minister for Trades and Customs…
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Farming & the land, 1948
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 30
Russia Is Good Wool Customer
CANBERRA: Russia was the fifth largest buyer of Australian wool in recent sales. More than 11,000,0001b of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Extra Butter For Pensioners
The Minister for Trade and Customs (Senator Courtice) advised Mayfield Pensioners' Association that the Government had decided…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →1500-Ton Wheat Trains Arrive
Each day two 55 class locomotives motives haul a 1500-ton wheat train from Werris Creek to Newcastle. In an effort to overcome…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Junior Farmers' Bacon Contest
The Government pig expert (Mr. Carse) awarded first prize for a bacon pig carcase to Gregory Griffin, in the pig-raising competition…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.S. Dairy Expert to Speak at Maitland
Dr. W. E. Petersen, lecturer in dairy husbandry at Minnesota University, U.S.A., and world-famous authority on his subject, will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter "Too Scarce" To End Rationing
CANBERRA Tuesday.—The Commonwealth Government was not game to lift butter rationing in Australia because it would find…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Wool Sales Open
Wool sales commenced at Newcastle yesterday with the disposal of 7000 bales of Australian Wool Realisation Committee wool and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four Wheat Cargoes For Britain
Five wheat cargoes will be loaded at Newcastle between yesterday and next Monday. The Daltonhall sailed yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →123½d For Wool In Newcastle
The highest price realised this season at Newcastle wool sales, 123½d, was paid for one bale of sup AAA e in the star…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Wool Prices "May Not Remain"
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—A warning that a seller's market and high prices for wool may not last indefinitely is sounded in the annual…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Poultry Farmers Protest On New Feed Prices
Newcastle branch of the Poultry Farmers' Association decided last night to protest to the State Prices branch against the 25 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junior Farmers' Field Day
About 300 boys and girls will attend the Junior Farmers' annual field day on the Wallalong property of Mr. S. Parish to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Poultry Farmers Hit By Increased Prices
Increased prices of poultry feed would probably force many poultry farmers to retire and return to industry, Mr. W. Knott, a member of the Newcastle branch of the Poultry Farmers' Association, said today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heard Record Wool Call
Attending Newcastle wool sales yesterday were (left to right) Mrs. A. S. Nivison, Miss J. Nivison and Mr. Nivison. Their wool, from the well-known Mirani Stud, Walcha, brought 135d a lb., a record for Newcastle Sales…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Sets Wool Record
A Newcastle record price of 135d a lb. was paid at the wool sales yesterday. The price was brought by eight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Trucks Bank Up
Newcastle silos were full yesterday. More than 400 loaded bulk railway trucks were waiting in Newcastle yards to discharge into the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dearer Clothes After Soviet Rush for Wool
SYDNEY: Big increases in clothing prices will occur shortly as a result of "splash" buying of Australian wool by Russia. Soviet buyers are on our mar-…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Young Farmer Sums Up
Noreen Niness, 13, of Wallalong, a junior farmer who attended yesterday's field day for young farmers at Wallalong, thinks hard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →300 At Junior Farmers' Day
More than 300 boys and girls attended the annual Junior Farmers' field day on the property of Mr. S. Parish, at Wallalong yesterday…
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