Share Farmers' Test Case
SYDNEY.—A tax appeal by a Riverstone share dairy farmer was described today as a test, case likely to affect 70,000…
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Farming & the land, 1951
930 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 47
Bulahdelah Show May Drop Cattle
The cattle section at Bulahdelah Show might have to be dropped, the Show Secretary (Mr. C. A. Wilson) said yesterday. There were no entries in the…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—The High Court to-day reserved judgment on the challenge by two graziers to the validity of the Wool…
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SYDNEY: Approximately 66 per cent, of Australia's wool clip this season has been sold, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S. Wool Mills Closed By Strike
BOSTON, Fri. (A.A.P.). — Most of the nation's wool and worsted mills were closed down today by a strike of 70,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bolwarra Farmers Repair Bank
Local farmers this week repaired a break in the protecting embankment near Vercoe and Lightfoot's property at Bolwarra…
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SYDNEY.—Excessive wastage in fruit and vegetables is keeping prices up, president of the N.S.W. Fruit Shopkeepers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stoppage at 3 Wool Stores
Casual employees in Newcastle wool stores who stopped work on Friday will meet in Newcastle Trades Hall at 2 p.m. so-day…
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A meeting of urban farmowners at Lake-road, Wallsend, yesterday decided to ask the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham), through…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Dearer in Sydney
SYDNEY, Monday.—Topmaking fleece and skirtings were 2½ to 5 per cent, dearer at the wool sales to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australia's Wheat Yield 183M. Bush
CANBERRA, Monday.—Australia's wheat harvest for the 1950-51 season was 183,400,000 bushels, 16.7 per cent. below the record…
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SYDNEY: Skilful gangs of sheep stealers along the border districts of the Riverina are operating on such a huge scale that graziers arc planning bands of "night raiders."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£15,000 Sheep Loss In Queensland Fire
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Sheep worth £15,000 were burnt to death in a fire which swept through five sheep stations in the Barcaldine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Prices Remain Firm
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Prices at to-day's wool sales were fully firm at yesterday's levels for all descriptions of merino. Comebacks and…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A bale of extra fine merino lambs wool brought a new world record price of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →World's Potato Crop Up
NEW YORK. — World production of potatoes in the 1950-51 growing season is estimated at 8,600,000,000 bushels,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Compensation For Cattle Destroyed
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Owners whose cattle are destroyed by order of statutory authority, because of certain diseases, will be paid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Comeback Wool Record Goes
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A new world record of 286d lb for comeback wool was established at Geelong sales to-day…
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Leslie Herd, of Wallsend, John Middlemass, and Colin Atchison, of Cardiff, were impressed by the junior farmers' exhibit at…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The world wool price record jumped 16d to 427d a lb on the last day of the Geelong wool sales…
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