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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
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CANBERRA.—Butter is off the ration. For the first time in seven years coupons are not needed to buy it. The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) announced this late yesterday, at the conclusion of a day-long Cabinet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There was no great demand in Newcastle today on stocks of butter, but many grocers increased their normal supplies…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →People clamoured for butter rationing to end. They got what they wanted. Then they did practically nothing about it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Most of Australia's export wheat surplus from the last crop had been sold, the Chairman of the Austra…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WASHINGTON, Sun. (A.A.P.)—Striking Washington dairy workers today voted to accept a compromise pay and hours…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday.— Although the wheat industry was prosperous now, the near future was not reassuring, an employers' witness…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Monday.—The last of the season's wool sales in Adelaide, which began to-day, opened firm. There was keen competition,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Claude Googe, 37, dairy farmer, is believed to have been drowned in Wybong Creek, near Muswellbrook, yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →With the hitter experience of six floods having devastated their land in 12 months, Morpeth district farmers hope that State and Federal Governments will he more generous than after the June 1949 floods, when all farmers were offered was a bank loan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eighteen bulk flour and pollard bins—the only type in Australia—are being by Messes, Keys and Company, flour millers, Narrabri. Each bin has a 1500-bushel capacity for whet, 35 tons for flour, 32 tons for pollard, and 25 tons for bran…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BRISBANE: Profits amounting to about £55 million accumulated during the war years by the Joint…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Loads of vegtables brought down from the flooded Hunter areea were worth every penny of the high prices received by the growers who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.—It might be necessary in the near future to have all dairy produce manufactured from accredited milk, Mr. J. R…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Morpeth farmer who estimates he has lost £4000 in floods in a year is ferrying small cars in his truck through flooded sections of the highway at East Maitland to try to recoup part of his losses. He is Mr. G. J. Korff, who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The grape harvest in the Hunter River district has been reduced by 30 per cent. due to excessive rainfall…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Bills to provide for collection of the levy on wool to finance a possible marketing plan after the Joint…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A demonstration of sheep shearing, wool classing and baling at Junction School this morning, marked the first occasion on which industry was brought into a school in Newcastle and probably the first time it…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A shearing shed atmosphere will come into the Junction School this morning. Pupils, teachers and trainee-teachers from Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Every Thursday night women and girls from all parts of Newcastle foregather at Miss Doris Smith's home at Hamilton…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WASHINGTON, Wed. (A.A.P.): The House of Representatives today approved a bill to provide an additional 2000…
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