Wool Shipments Begin
The first shipment of wool from Newcastle this season left for Sydney yesterday in the Hunter River Co. Ltd.'s steamer Kindur. Shipments of wool grown in…
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Farming & the land, 1949
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Demand For Wool Sustained
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Under good Continental and British competition, supported to some extent by Australian mills, the Sydney wool…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Suburban and District Stray Cattle "Ate Roses; Very Vexing"
In a letter to Cardiff Urban Area Committee last night, Mr. J. Papez said seven stray cattle ate the roses along his front wall,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South African Tobacco Crop
LONDON.—The Union of South Africa's 1948-49 tobacco crop is placed at 17 per cent, below the 1947-48 harvest,…
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SYDNEY: The Federal Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union (Mr. T. Dougherty) said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Demand For Wool Sustained
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Under strong and general competition the Sydney wool market to-day showed all the best features of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No Price Increases Likely For Butter And Petrol
MELBOURNE: Increases in the price of butter and petrol are not likely to be agreed to at the interstate conference of Prices Ministers at Hobart tomorrow, it was authoritatively stated today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →State's Butter Output Down
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Butter and cheese production in N.S.W. declined by 671 tons and 165 tons respectively for the year ended…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Market Buoyant
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The trend of values in sellers' favour was continued at the wool sales to-day, and was strongly accentuated under the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Government Slated Over Butter Price
SYDNEY, Thursday—Authorities who were failing to grant the correct price for the farmers' product were the same people who would…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Increases In Butter, Petrol Prices Unlikely
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The conference of Prices Ministers in Hobart to-morrow is unlikely to agree to increases in the prices of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →250 Cattle Donated For Kempsey Area
SYDNEY, Thursday.—New South Wales dairy farmers had donated 250 cattle to victims of the Kempsey floods, the Milk Board…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Demand "Stimulated" By Devaluation
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Chairman of Directors of Winchcombe Carson, Ltd. (Mr. H. Bell), said to-day he viewed the future of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soviet Bans London As Wool Port
LONDON. Sept. 29. A.A.P.—An official of one of Britain's largest wool buying companies said that Russia and Poland had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japan May Buy More Wool From Australia
TOKYO, Sept. 29. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Japan's purchase of Australian wool under the 1949-50 agreement may increase by 50 per cent.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To Take 23,000 Bales of Wool
Twenty - three thousand bales of the wool, sold at last week's sales, is expected to leave for the United Kingdom…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dispute Over Key Jobs In Wool Store
Some members of the Storemen and Packers' Union refused to accept engagement for jobs at Newcastle wool dumps this morning. If their dispute develops It…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Some Farmers Milk Cows Once A Day
A few farmers were only milking their herds once a day, maintaining that the extra time spent in milking twice daily did not pay,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmer Against Aid For Land Settlement
SYDNEY, Thursday.—No one should be given financial aid to go on the land, Mr. W. Robinson (Clarence) said at the quarterly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Shortage 'Serious For Poultrymen'
Stocks of bulk wheat in Newcastle were almost depleted, and poultry farmers and merchants were in serious trouble, Mr. S. Steggles…
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