£500,000 Wool Fire
AUCKLAND, Feb. 8 A.A.P.Reuter.—A fire in Dalgety and Company's store in Auckland destroyed wool valued at £500,000…
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Farming & the land, 1951
930 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 47
Big Junior Farmer Show Entry
A record of more than 2000 entries had been received in the Junior Farmers' section at Newcastle Show, the Secretary of the…
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MORE record-breaking prices—but this time the other way round. The price of wool was falling, and with it came…
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PARIS, Feb. 11. A.A.P.—Jean Berton, 90, farmer, of Cherac, Western France, who had been pronounced…
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TOCUMWAL: Fifteen "healthy" men today guarded a wool and wheat property at Tocumwal. in the Riverina district, to stop Government officials from entering the premises…
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SYDNEY: An immediate change in the system of grading wheat was urged today by the Minister for Labor and…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Scoured wool brought the Queensland record price of 334d a lb, for two bales from Winton, at the wool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Tractor As Pianist's "Fee"
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12. A.A.P.—The noted pianist, Rudolf Serkin, played three concertos with the Philadelphia Orchestra—then…
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SYDNEY. — Tocumwal farmer, Mr. R. Johnson, said to-day that he had obtained legal advice in an attempt to…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Six bales of scoured wool from Julia Creek brought 365d a lb., an Australian record, at the wool sales to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Greer Garson Buys Scottish Cattle
LONDON, Feb. 13. A.A.P.—Greer Garson, the film star, competed with Australian buyers for the purchase of heifers at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sell Sheep From Resumed Property
TOCUMWAL. — Mir. Rivers Johnson probably will sell hundreds of his sheep because one of his properties has been…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—An organised gang of thieves is believed to be responsible for the disappearance of hundreds of sheep from…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—There was no Commonwealth power to justify legislation which took money from woolgrowers and gave it back…
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GOSFORD, Tuesday.—Gosford Chamber of Commerce will consider a plea by the Primary Producers' Union for a weekly…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The sheriff, escorted by two police constables, to-day took possession of a property at Tocumwal which the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm-worker Won Knitting Contest
LONDON. — Winner of a knitting contest, at Westgate against housewives' from all parts of Kent was Fred…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool And Wheat Dances For Jubilee
Costumes for the wool and wheat dances by girls from Newcastle secondary and primary schools for the Jubilee…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Although the amount of wool exported [?] Australia in the last six months of 1950 was almost 100…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stubborn Stud-Farmer Delays European Defence Plan
NEW YORK, Wed. (O.S.R.): Gen. Eisenhower's first step in building up Western European defences have been temporarily stalled because a stubborn French farmer will not sell a piece of land…
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