Wool Expert Attacks Our Inefficiency
LONDON, Tues. (O.S.R.): Inflated wages and inefficiency are responsible for Australian manufacturers' inability to hold their own against British woollen manufacturers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1949
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Sales of Wool on
All the wool to be offered at the first two of this season's sales had already arrived in Newcastle, the Chairman of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Belt Needs No Further Rain
SYDNEY: A soaking of up to five inches of rain on the wheat belt has assured a bumper crop but more heavy falls could cause damage. Wheat farmers today describ-…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japan's Entry To Wheat Council Backed
CANBERRA, Tuesday. — The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. Pollard) to-day supported Japan's admission to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Market Firm In Sydney
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Under more widespread competition, especially from the Continent, with good support from Yorkshire, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Grants Sought For Farmer Flood Victims
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Financial grants to flooded-out owner-farmers who were considered to be outside the scope of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Sales Next Week
Buyers from all parts of the world will begin to arrive in Newcastle on Monday for the first Newcastle wool sales this season…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood Traps 2000 Sheep: Fed From Air
MOREE: About 2000 sheep stranded in flooded areas west of Moree are being kept alive by feed dropped to them from the air. The sheep, all ewes, belong-…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Price Reductions At Wool Sales
SYDNEY, Thursday. — Sydney wool-selling brokers reported that irregularities in the demand were still evident at the closing auctions…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rice Crops In French "Cowboy Country"
WASHINGTON, Thurs. (O.S.R.): The "cowboy country" of southern France, old world counterpart of the American "Wild West," is enjoying an economic revival…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Maitland Help For Macleay Farmers
Maitland Show Council decided last night to canvass immediately for donations of stock and money to replace flood losses by farmers on the Macleay River…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Isolated Sheep Fed From Air
MOREE, Friday.—About 3000 lambs and ewes isolated by the recent floods in the Moree district are being fed from the air by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soviet Showing Big Interest In Wool Sales
NEW YORK, Sept. 16. A.A.P.—Present indications are that Soviet Russia will again become a dominant factor in this year's raw…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Vicar Helps Income By Farming
LONDON.—The Rev. Noel Boston, vicar of East Dereham (Norfolk), has given up golf, bought a motor cultivator and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairy Blocks for Closer Settlement
SYDNEY.—The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) has approved of two dairy blocks being made exclusively to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →U.K. Applies Export Control To Raw Wool
LONDON, Sept. 18. A.A.P.—Raw wool shipped from the United Kingdom on and after September 19 will be subject to export…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Free Transport For Gift Cattle
SYDNEY, Monday.—Free rail transport would be arranged for gift stock donated for the distribution among stockowners who had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Currency Benefit In Wheat
MELBOURNE: Wheat farmers and Australia generally would benefit "decidedly" by sterling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prices Chiefs Against Rise For Butter
ADELAIDE. Monday.—The New South Wales Prices Minister (Mr. Finnan) told the Premier of South Australia (Mr. Playford) to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Sales To-day
Newcastle's first wool sales this season will begin at the Wool Exchange this afternoon. About 27,500 bales from the…
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