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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
911 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 46
SCOTCH LASS.—Vivacious, titian-haired Ruth Blackwood, 20, of Glasgow, arrived on the migrant ship Cheshire buoyed up with hopes of life on a Singleton farm. Ruth's father has been missing at sea for eight years and her family left…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Wheat experts say Australia's crop this year will be the second best on record and not far below the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Norwegian ship, Tourcoing (6780 tons) is expected to finish loading the second shipment of the season's wheat for Norway at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Meat Industry Commission expects, that a strike of 350 mutton slaughtermen at the State Abattoirs,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The amount of wheat exported from Newcastle this season is expected to easily exceed last season's figures…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.—A farmer had both his hands blown off to-day when a plug of gelignite exploded while he was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LEARNING TO SWIM.—Many thousands of children at 51 centres in New Sooth Wales are being taught to swim during the Christmas school vacation. The classes are conducted under the auspices of the National Fitness…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yields of up to 14 bags an acre had been obtained from wheat crops in the Scone area, the District Agronomist (Mr. F. D. Mackenzie)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When the Tourcoing leaves for the Continent on Sunday, 59,275 tons of wheat will have been exported from Newcastle during the six weeks from Nov. 25. Eight ships will nave taken…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmers were becoming pasture-minded and much land would be sown to grass this year, the Hunter District Dairy Officer (Mr. J. W…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The grape crop at the Dalwood vineyard would be fair this year, said the Manager of Penfold's Wines (Dalwood) Ltd. (Mr. P. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE: The largest sale of this season's wheat crop so far has been to Japan which has bought approximately 200,000 tons, the Chairman of the Australian Wheat Board (Mr. F…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE.—The Director of Rationing (Mr J. B. Cumming) said to-day that all special butter coupons, such as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DAVENPORT (Iowa), Jan. 8. A.A.P.—The bodies of 37 women have been recovered from the ruins of the burnt-out mental ward of the three-storied Mercy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOKYO, Jan. 9. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Japan to-day received her first postwar shipment of Australian livestock—five Illawarra Shorthorn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Special butter coupons, such as those issued in 1949 for diabetics, prenatal cases and for other reasons,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CAPETOWN, Jan. 9. A.A.P.—Farmers in East London, South Africa, made more than £7,500,000 on wool sold on the local exchange…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrance Hocking, 30, of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Muswellbrook, suffered an injury to the back, bruised head and shock last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LITHGOW, Wednesday.—Nicknamed "Judas," a black sheep owned by Messrs. P. and S. Eather, Lithgow butchers, has died at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Field days would be held in late February or March on some Commonwealth dairy farms, the Hunter District…
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