Junior Farmers' Big Part In This Year's Show
As in previous years, the Junior Farmers are playing a prominent part in this year's Newcastle Show. Their vegetable, farm produce…
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Farming & the land, 1949
725 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 37
In a hut in Telford-street, once a recreation centre for troops on leave, the Newcastle Wool Exchange conducts its lighting auction sales. Hammer-Knock Can Mean A Million
In what seems to the outsider to be an unintelligible series of yells and mumbo-jumbo, thousands of bales of wool whose value often exceeds £1 million change hands to the knock of the auctioneer's hammer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ship Leaves Wool
The Newborough sailed from Newcastle for Sydney yesterday afternoon with 22,000 bales of wool. She left several thousand bales…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Eden Watches Sheep Dogs Work
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Deputy Leader of the British Opposition (Mr. Anthony Eden) to-day inspected stud stock and watched…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Conference Ordered On Wool Dispute
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. J. H. Portus, Federal Conciliation Commissioner to-day ordered a compulsory conference on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Prices
WE often hear it said by apologists for the capitalist system that trade union control is the cause of the high cost of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →1000 Members of Wool Union Strike
MELBOURNE, Monday.—The strike by the Federal branch of the Wool and Basil Workers' Union came into full force to-day when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →7/ a Week Rise to Dairy Company Men
SINGLETON, Monday.—Although employees of Singleton Central Cooperative Dairy Company had been advised through their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Helped Junior Farmers' Exhibit
Lois Brown, 14, of Raymond Terrace, smilingly helps to arrange her club's exhibit at the junior farmers section at Maitland Show…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crop Dusting, Seed Sowing At Aviation Display
ARMIIDALE, Wednesday.—Crop dusting and seed sowing by aircraft will be demonstrated for the first time in Australia at Woodville, near…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rumania Grabs Gentry's Farms
BUCHAREST, March 2. A.A.P. —Rumania has liquidated all holdings of the landed gentry. The Government acted because…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Packers Reject Terms To End Wool Strike
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A stop-work meeting of members of the Federated Storemen and Parkers' Union to-day rejected employers'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Farmers "Entitled To Overtime"
Dairy farmers were entitled to overtime rates. Dungog branch told the annual meeting of the Primary Producers' District…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmers Concerned; Fencing Shortage
At a meeting at Maitland yesterday, Hunter farmers expressed concern at the shortage of fencing materials…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Workers to Resume
MELBOURNE.— Members of the Wool and Basil Workers' Federation decided at a meeting today to return to work on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sailed Without Wool Cargo
The overseas vessel Port Albany left Newcastle at the week-end without, the cargo of 5000 bales of wool it was to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Station
I spent a holiday on my uncle's sheep, station and saw the sheep being shorn. I was amazed to see the lovely fleeces. Every…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Sackings Start
SYDNEY: Dismissals began today at Sydney wool stores, where storemen and packers refused to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Intervention Urged in Wool Dispute
SYDNEY, Monday.—Master tanners and boot and shoe manufacturers to-day urged intervention by Mr. Chifley in the storemen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Atomic Farms" Are On The Way In America Now
NEW YORK, Mon. (O.S.R.)—After two years of experiments with atomic products on agriculture, U.S. scientists this year will apply the results of the research to a large number of farms…
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