Wool Gift Recipient Countries Named
CANBERRA, Friday.—A consignment of Australian wool valued at £1,100,000, which had been offered by the Australian…
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Farming & the land, 1948
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 30
£23,000 Damage In Wool Fire
BRISBANE, Friday.—Damage estimated at £23,000 was caused by fire this morning in Knox & Sons wool scour, Belmont…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Reduced interest rates on some loans to primary producers were announced today by the Minister for…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—George W. Saunders, 51, farmer, of Mt. Eccles South, near Leongatha, was shot dead during an altercation on…
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MELBOURNE: Following the shooting of a farmer at Mount Eccles, near Leongatha, yesterday an 18-year-old farm hand from Sydney was arrested and charged with murder…
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SYDNEY. — Wage increases for 50,000 pastoral workers in all states except Queensland will be granted in an interim…
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CANBERRA, Monday.—The Federal Government does not propose to sell wheat to New Zealand at reduced rates, other than that provided for under the Australia-New Zealand wheat agreement…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Merino, comeback and fine crossbred wools advanced 5 to 7½ per cent. at to-day's wool sales. Fine crossbred…
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A scientific party was landed last month on Macquarie Island, 1000 miles south-east of Tasmania. The group is unit of the…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Federal Parliamentary Labour Party has agreed to ratify by legislation the international wheat…
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Three brokers offered 8313 bales of wool af Newcastle wool sales today. The wool was drawn…
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The highest price at the Newcastle wool sales, which resumed yesterday, was 89½d lb for six bales of AAA sup, from K. E. Bowden's…
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Top price realised, at this week's Newcastle wool sales which ended yesterday, was 110d for one…
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Two more oversea ships are listed to load wheat in Newcastle next week. They are the Charles A. Dana, due Sunday, and the Elias…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Armidale Wool Brings 101½d
Five bales of New England wool realised 101½d a lb. at Newcastle wool sales yesterday. The wool, AAA w and e, was…
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MELBOURNE: The subsidy to milk producers for April will be increased by 1d to 5d a gallon because the dry spell…
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WASHINGTON, April 11. A.A.P.—The Department of Agriculture forecast that the wheat crop of more than 1000 million bushels…
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BAGHDAD, April 12. A.A.P.—Nine thousand tons of Australian wheat has arrived at Basra. An other shipment of 10,000 tons is…
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A record single day's loading of 6200 tons of bulk wheat was taken aboard the Charles A. Danna at the silo berth on Sunday…
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