Man Who Once Grew Record Crop Dies
PERTH, Sunday.—Mr. F. W. G. Liebe, the only individual in Australia and reputedly in the world to have grown 100,000 bags of…
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Farming & the land, 1950
911 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 46
Farmer Remanded On Shooting Charge
YOUNG: A farmer-dairyman, Walter Berrell (49), of Maimuru, today appeared in Young court on a shooting charge…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Australia would not consent to the admission of Germany or Japan to the International Wheat Agreement…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Greasy merino wool sold to 171d—2d below the seasonal record—for 5 bales ex. sup. A.E. of…
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MELBOURNE: Forty-seven bales of wool worth nearly £10,000 and weighing several tons were stolen from a truck…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Brief Six Shot Dead By Malay Terrorists Wheat For Japan And Germany
Six people were shot dead yesterday when a large force of terrorists ambushed a lorry on an estate road in Kedah. Those killed were three special constables, an estate clerk, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Merino Wool To 146d 1b. In Newcastle
Five bales of greasy Merino wool from the Armidale district brought the top price of 146d a lb at the opening day of Newcastle wool…
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SYDNEY. — Britain's wool textile production last November—the most recent date for which official figures are…
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Three young British farmers will be the guests of Lower Hunter Junior Farmers' Clubs next month. The Junior Farmers' District…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Footrot In Some Dairy Herds
Footrot had been reported in some dairy herds, the Hunter District Dairy Officer (Mr. J. W. G. Smith) said today in…
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KANO (Northern Nigeria).— Nigeria's groundnut exports, backbone of Britain's margarine ration, will be cut this year…
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday (A.A.P).—An increase of 2,000,000,000 dollars (£892,729,933 Australian) in Commodity…
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THE HAGUE.—Holland's exports of dairy produce in 1949 were valued at more than 500 million guilders (£A58,411,215)—…
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The British ship Cromarty is fitting out in Newcastle to take the third wheat shipment to Japan this season…
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BRADFORD, Thurs: With Dominion wool going still clearer, Yorkshire's biggest headache is financing and planning ahead her big-scale wool purchases at today's high prices. At a conservative estimate…
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SYDNEY.—A £500 reward is offered for information leading to the recovery of a trucked with 47 bales of Wool stoled…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Four motor-boats are rescuing 4000 sheep stranded without food on Mayfield Station…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The wool market to-day ruled without change for all descriptions. The best features of yesterday were again evident…
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MELBOURNE: If the Arbitration Court agreed to a £10 basic wage, farmers would ask immediately for a 1/- a lb. more for butter, the Federal Secretary of the Australian Primary Producers' Union (Mr. B. J…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Exports To U.S. Nearly Double Value
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Shipments of greasy wool to the United States in the seven months ended last January almost doubled in…
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