Wheat Cargo For Sweden
The Mirrabooka (5739 tons) is due to leave Newcastle to-day with what is believed to be the first consignment of wheat from…
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Farming & the land, 1948
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 30
Australian Wool Is Too Dear for U.s
NEW YORK, Tues. (A.A.P.): "The Wall-st. Journal" says American woollen goods manufacturers have been buying little wool from Australia recently because prices have been too high…
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The Australian ship Merkur has arrived at Kobe with 16,520lb of Australian wool which will be processed by local spinning companies…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Any attempt to operate the dairying industry under a 40-hour week would be ridiculous, Mr. H. J. Miller, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Output
Butter production for January, 1948, was 5073 tons, the Government Statistician (Mr. S. R. Carver) said yesterday. This was 78 per…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Junior Farmers' Show Profit £200
At a meeting of Raymond Terrace Junior Farmers' Club, the Treasure reported that the recent Junior Farmers' Show had realised…
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LONDON.—A total of 35 1/2lb of butter was stated at Marylebone to have been found wrapped round the legs and the…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—A party of 40 Dutch farmers, who will settle in Australia, will sail from Rotterdam on the motor-vessel…
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It was suggested recently that Victoria should introduce the American idea of fish-farming. It's a wonder that the Hunter River district didn't do so years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. Wool Price Up
Wool prices for the 1948 clip will be increased one to four cents a lb under the United States price support programme. The increase…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Two young Pakistan princes arrived in Sydney by Constellation this morning to study Australian methods of…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Exports of butter and cheese to Britain would reach record levels by the end of the financial year on…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Although no Japanese wool buyers would be allowed into Australia. Japan could purchase some of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Sales Resume Next Week
More than 24,000 bales of wool will be offered at Newcastle next week when wool sales resume. The sales were suspended early…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Shipment for Season 74,446 Tons
Since November, 11 overseas ships have loaded 74,446 tons of wheat at Newcastle. Dalgety and Co., the loading…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Oyster Farmers See Risk in Imports
SYDNEY Tuesday.—The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research had failed to give scientific assistance to the oyster growing…
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William John Hollingsworth farmer, of West Maitland, collapsed while driving a horse-drawn lucerne mower at his home,…
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Mr. A. Sanson, a dairy farmer of "Oakfield," Salt Ash, admitted that it was by accident that he became the owner of Hualong, who won the Maiden Juvenile Handicap at Wyong races yesterday. It was…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Ex ports of Australian greasy wool to the United States—Australia's main dollar revenue source—in first eight…
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TOKYO, April 2.—General MacArthur's Headquarters announced to-day that Mr. Max B. Laupheimer, Chief of Wool Procurement,…
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