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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

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Fishing Experts Visualise Prawn 'Farming'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 April 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday. — The possibility of raising prawns by methods used in fish farming were discussed at the Indo-Pacific…

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Selections for Eagle Farm

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 28 April 1950 · page 13

First Novice Handicap: BAILEY BRIDGE 1, Drom-herty 2, Arubial King 3. Second Novice Handicap: SEA…

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Betting Order for Eagle Farm Minor Races Novice Handicap First Division

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 28 April 1950 · page 16

Red Light. Dromerty. Arurbial King. Bailey Bridge, Pacific…

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New Slim Skirt In Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 6

The new slim skirt is featured in this frock of purple wool with a white pique yoke. The Lilly Dache hat is called "Jack…

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Population on U.s. Farms

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 3

NEW YORK.—The farm population in the United States. which totalled 27.776,000 men, women and children in…

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Her Farm Stock Is All White

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 5

HOLLYWOOD, Rriday (O.S.R.): Fifty-eight cows. bulls, calves, heifers, rams, and ewes—all pure white…

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Dollars For Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 1

WASHINGTON, April 30. A.A.P.—The Economic Cooperation Administration announced that Britain had been granted 35 million…

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Empire's Dairy Produce Lower

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 2

LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.).— The Commonwealth Economic Committee, in a review of world trade in dairy produce, says the…

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Au Secour Scores At Eagle Farm

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 8

BRISBANE. — The Sydney gelding Au Secour scored effortlessly in the Sherwood Trial Handicap at Eagle Farm this…

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International Cotton Crops Exceed Demand

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 5

WASHINGTON. — International cotton experts estimate cotton crops this season at fully 31 million bales, against…

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Floods and Blowfly Kill Million Sheep

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 3

BRISBANE, Monday.—Floods and a blowfly attack in Western Queensland are estimated by authorities to have killed about one…

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Empire's Dairy Produce Trade Declines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 3

LONDON, May 1. A.A.P.—The Commonwealth Economic Committee, in a review of the world trade in dairy produce, says the British…

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Wheat Cargoes Approach 168,000 Tons

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 2

Almost 168,000 tons of wheat will have been shipped from Newcastle this season when the Graiguar completes loading…

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U.S. May Cut Wool, Cloth Tariffs

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 15

LONDON, Thurs. (O.S.R.): Washington reports suggest that the U.S. is willing to consider revising import duties on the chief categories of apparel wool and wool cloth when the…

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Settlement Scheme For Migrant Farmers

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 3

OTTAWA, Wed. (A.A.P.).— Nova Scotia is to subsidise a scheme for settling migrant farmers…

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Little Seed From Lucerne Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 4

A lucerne crop at Baerami Creek, near Denman, which earlier in the season was expected to yield about 100 tons of seed, was almost a…

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Need For Hunter Farm School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 2

A full-time agricultural high school for the Hunter district is strongly urged by Group 3, the organisation that represents 14 show societies in the district…

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Youth on Bond For Cattle Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 3

SINGLETON, Monday.—John Whitfield Dunstan, 19, dairy farmer, of Greenwood, Singleton was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment…

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Keen Competition At Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The best features of yesterday's sales were in evidence at the Sydney wool sales to-day…

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Bale Rate For Wool Transport

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 7

SYDNEY. Tuesday.—The Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) to-day tabled in the Legislative Assembly a railway by-law which…

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