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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1949

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Mitchum Goes To Honor Farm

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Thurs. (O.S.R.) —After having served six of his 60 days' sentence for drug addiction, film star Robert…

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131d For Wool At Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thursday.—All the best features of the previous auctions of the week were strongly reproduced at to-day's wool sales…

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Farmers Urged To Store Fodder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 5

Conservation of surplus fodder was urged yesterday by the Dairy Officer for the Hunter (Mr. J. W. G. Smith)…

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Conference Ordered On Wool Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Portus, Federal Conciliation Commissioner, has ordered a compulsory conference of the parties to the wool…

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Argentine May Quit World Wheat Talks

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Friday. (A.A.P.). — An Argentine spokesman said Argentina would pull out of the 56-nation…

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Bolwarra Farmer Shares £3000 Prize

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 7

A Bolwarra farmer, Mr. W. Vickery, was successful this week in winning a fifth share of £3000 in a Queensland Art…

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Wool Dispute Talks Fail, Ban Still On

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 9

SYDNEY.—Parties involved in the two weeks' old ban on outward shipments of wool, skins, hides and tallow failed to…

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Schoolboy Pickers Save Grape Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 2

About 20 tons of grapes were picked by 100 Maitland schoolboys on Saturday, when they responded to an appeal by the Manager of…

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Decide Wheat prices

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.): The rights of Australian wheatgrowers as to the amount…

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Butter Output Up On December Figures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday. — Factory butter produced in New South Wales in January this year was 132 tons more than the 3721 tons…

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Liner to Leave Without Wool

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY.—The liner Aorangi will leave Sydney on Thursday on schedule without 4000 bales of wool, which cannot be…

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Farmyards' Best Sex Approach

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 2

LONDON, Tues. (O.S.R.): The farmyard approach to sex has always been safer than the intellectual, Professor H. A. Harris, Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge, told a conference of…

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Record Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 4

Mr. A. S. Nivison, of Walchs, examines a handful from one of his seven bales of greasy merino wool, which brought a record…

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Wheat Exhibits At Show Trebled

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 5

Wheat exhibits at this year's Newcastle Show have more than trebled last year's total. There are almost 100…

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There's More Space For Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 12

The number of entries and the quality of wheat entered will make this year's wheat exhibition the best Newcastle has seen. Mr. W. H. Lye, of West…

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£7,000,000 Wool Is Held Up

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 8

SYDNEY.—Wool valued at £7,000,000 has been held up in Sydney by the storemen and packers' dispute…

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Wages Dispute Holds Up £6M. Worth Of Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The store-man and packers' dispute on wages, which has reached a deadlock, is holding up the loading of 100,000…

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Show's Part in Battle for Wheat Silos Aerial View of Silos

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 4

Each year an outstanding feature of the Newcastle Show is the attractive rural display staged in the Agricultural Pavilion by the Central Coast and Tablelands Districts Exhibit Association…

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Junior Farmers Will Have Their Part

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 11

A feature of the Junior Farmer' Movement display at the Show will be the inter-club exhibition. Wallsend, Raymond Terrace and Cardiff Clubs will be the competitors. Each of the clubs will stage…

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A Diplomat Who Knows Farming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 2

The High Commissioner for New Zealand (Mr. Barclay), who will open the Newcastle Show to-morrow, is a farming expert. Mr. Barclay has been the New…

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